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“But perhaps this is what normality is: a complex of dread and terror which compels the psyche to deny and restructure reality. Those who cannot ensconce themselves within social delusions either distort reality and hallucinate their own mirages, or they go mad.”
― Jerry S. Piven, Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Moral Terror

“…the individual must blind himself from seeing that which his group claims does not exist, or accept as truth that which the majority says is true, even if his own eyes could convince him that it is false. The herd is so vitally important for the individual that their views, beliefs, feelings, constitute reality for him, more so than what his senses and his reason tell him.”
― Erich Fromm, Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud

“This is why there is something awful about human freedom. This power to make a choice which will never cease to reverberate.”
― Jerome A. Miller, The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis

“When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.”
― Jerome A. Miller, The Way of Suffering: A Geography of Crisis