{"quotes":[{"text":"Change is threatening to the status quo.","author":"David W. Earle","tags":["change","dysfunction","love","recovery","relationships"],"id":8166,"author_id":"David+W.+Earle"},{"text":"It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma.","author":"Colleen Truscott Fry","tags":["dysfunction","dysfunctional","heartbreak","immaturity","karma","misery","revenge","self-pity"],"id":33077,"author_id":"Colleen+Truscott+Fry"},{"text":"For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.","author":"Amy Davidson","tags":["dysfunction","government","political-parties","politics","republicans","u-s-politics","worldview"],"id":51021,"author_id":"Amy+Davidson"},{"text":"If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will also infect, sorry, I intended to say effect, our entire family.","author":"Donna K. Childree","tags":["adoption","adoption-search","dysfunction","dysfunctional-families","family-relationships","mothers"],"id":53929,"author_id":"Donna+K.+Childree"},{"text":"You know when 1 in 2 marriages ends in divorce, 1 in 42 boys have Autism, and safety complaints from the majority of whistle-blower's are not being upheld, that you are living in a seriously dysfunctional society.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["asd","autism","autism-spectrum","autism-spectrum-disorders","blower","boy","boys","complaint","complaints","divorce","divorce","dysfunction","dysfunctional","dysfunctional-society","dysfunctional-world","end","ends","know","knowledge","living","majority","marriage","marriage","marriages","osha","safety","seriously","society","society","upheld","whistle","whistle-blower","whistle-blowers","whistle-blowing","whistleblower","whistleblowers","whistleblowing"],"id":57289,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.","author":"David W. Earle","tags":["change","chaos","dysfunction","dysfunctional-families","family","hypocrisy","love","recovery","teenagers"],"id":98596,"author_id":"David+W.+Earle"},{"text":"It wasn't love, not quite, but it was almost there and it was desperate and I didn't know how to put it into words. It was the back and forth of him, the hot and cold, it made me crazy, made me feel crazy, and sanity never felt more pointless than when I was with him.","author":"Kristine Wyllys","tags":["dysfunction","love","lust"],"id":149547,"author_id":"Kristine+Wyllys"},{"text":"To be exploited fundamentally means to be confused. When you're not confused you can't be exploited because you have clarity about the situation. To confuse people you must provide contradictory information. People who really want to do you harm will provide you confusing measures of good and bad feedback because that keeps you disorientated. Evil always want to camouflage itself as virtue witch means all the bad things that evil does is called justice against immorality. So they camouflage their brutality as a mask of virtue. Camouflage is so fundamentally an aspect of the predator-prey relationships. The mugger does not camouflage himself but, that's because he can leave. He is gonna run off and you'll never find him or catch him or at least that's the goal or plan right? The relationships were you're supposed to stay and continue to provide resources are the ones were camouflage is the most essential because you're constantly looking at somebody who is a predator and that have to continually camouflage themselves as somebody who is not a predator. The most fundamental thing is the camouflage of non-empathy with empathy. This is why people who lack empathy always use the language of empathy and that's whats so confusing.There are a lot of great antidotes to this. I mean, you just ask that person questions about yourself that they dont have any self interest in knowing and find out whether they know the answers. All the things personal to you that dont have any direct impact on the other person. It's a great way to find out whether they have empathy or curiosity about you or not.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["dysfunction","empathy","exploitation","relationships"],"id":157017,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["behavior","behaviour","dysfunction","dysfunctional-families","freedom","peace","philosophy","psychology","statism"],"id":177011,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"She had gills while other people were breathing with lungs. There was, however, no point in dwelling on it, as it was too later to grow up differently.","author":"Sonja Yoerg","tags":["dysfunction","growing-up","relationships"],"id":179269,"author_id":"Sonja+Yoerg"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}