<blockquote>'..Bullies, like narcissists, don’t emerge from happy childhoods, secure in their parents’ love and imbued with a sense of their own worth. As they grow, they find ways to compensate: they shed fear, shame, and self-doubts, forcing them onto the losers they persecute.
In other words, we can best understand what unconsciously drives bullies by understanding the ways they make their victims feel. For the bully, the victim is what he fears that he himself might be: a loser.'
- Joseph Burgo, <a href="[
www.theatlantic.com] Bullies Are Narcissists</a>,
Stories of bullying and hazing in the news break down to narcissism and insecurity, November 14, 2013</blockquote>
<blockquote>'His marriage proposal was so blunt and riddled with warnings about his "difficult character" that she thought he was preparing to dump her.
..
Her in-laws hardly come off as more sensitive than their son. She makes clear in her account of their early years together that Putin's mother didn't care for her much.
..
Especially among men from military or security backgrounds, Voronina said, there persists an attitude that being sensitive is weak and unmanly.'
- Carol J. Williams (
Source, September 16, 2002)</blockquote>
<blockquote>'Putin may or may not be a clinical narcissist, but it may be wise just to treat him like one either way.'
- Joseph Burgo (
Source, Aprirl 15, 2014)</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
'A judgment of value .. a man's affective response to definite conditions of the universe..' - Ludwig von Mises'Haptonomy demonstrates that faculties every human being should possess are nowadays more and more under-developed, they lie fallow, or are atrophied, if not totally absent..'
- Frans Veldman,
The Art of Being Human(Haptonomy) - '..how affectivity shapes the human being in its being and essence throughout life.' - Dr. Catherine Dolto
Story - “Se-Cura” , “without fear”</blockquote>