Lawrence Thorton’s book, Imagining Argentina, a book about the disappeared in Argentina’s Dirty War, features a literature professor who is imprisoned and tortured.  When asked to identify his co-conspirators, he names Dostoevski, Camus, Koestler and The Last of the Just.  His torturers search phone books for the addresses, then beat him for misleading them.  He names the same names again. 

Even our evil, even our tendency against wholeness, exposes us to the love of God.  And it exposes us to that love in a way and at a depth to which even our desire for wholeness does not expose us. 

— Sebastian Moore, The Crucified Jesus Is No Stranger

The laws are like cobwebs: where the small flies are caught, and the great break through.

— Anacharsis

Therapists must realize the social implications of categorizing violent reactions as “inappropriate.”  Diagnoses based upon mainstream cultural assumptions may be racist or sexist and abuse power, prestige, safety and privilege.  As long as psychiatry and psychology are socially unaware, they will put down youth, women, the poor, People of Color, older people, gays and lesbians, “criminals” and people suffering from substance abuse, as if all of these people should solve their problems without the rest of the world’s having to change.  In this way, psychology exacerbates problems instead of alleviating them.

— Arnold Mindell, Sitting in the Fire