Schatten (Archetyp)

• The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge. Carl Gustav Jung, Aion, Collected Works 9, Part II, pg. 14, 1951
• Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many. Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudan
• We all have the potential to be killers. We found that the people who are the most violent are those who are incapable of embracing their own potential for evil. By projecting their shadow, their evil, onto the other, they justify their violence. They think they're emphasizing their purity, or restoring their purity, by destroying someone else. Robert A. F. Thurman, PhD., college professor and writer, named as one of the 25 Most Influential People, Time Magazine 1997
• We have met the enemy, and he is us. Walt Kelly, comic writer 'Pogo'
• My work with patients over decades as well as my understanding of historical developments have led me to the conviction that all "high" cultures are built on power and violence and are driven by psychological mechanisms that determine human behavior. Underpinning our "high" culture are our efforts to control the world, to possess, to dominate, and simultaneously to create mechanisms that allow us to deny and disguise our real motives. Arno Gruen, The Need to Punish. The Political Consequences of Identifying with the Aggressor, article, 1997
• Someone who has been tortured remains tortured forever [...] Someone who has undergone torture can never again feel at home in the world. The shame over being so utterly reduced cannot be expunged. One's feeling of trust in the world, a trust that falls apart partially with the first blow and then fully during the torture, can never be restored. Jean Améry, tortured by the Gestapo, 1966

Dark side of Corporations

• The corporation remains as it was at the time of its origins, as a mad business institution in the middle of the nineteenth century, and legally designated “person” designed to valorize self interest and invalidate moral concern. Most people would find its “personality” abnormal, even psychopathic, in a human being, yet curiously we accept it in society’s most powerful institutions. Joel Bakan, The Corporation
• A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, and artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image. Joel Bakan, The Corporation
• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to stop from facing their souls. Carl Gustav Jung
• Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it. […] but those who do will become well. Vernon Howard
• A shadow is just the part of Her that His light can’t banish or erase. Michael Tsarion