"Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity."
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M. Scott Peck, in The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and ..., p. 30
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