Adoring Your Abuser reminded James Nellis of two deathless quotes:

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles. —-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

…it has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration. —-Etienne de la Boetie

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