... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.

Nell Freudenberger
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In this quote, Mohandas Gandhi says that people don't know what they really want because they are too afraid of saying it. He says that people will often say things that they wouldn't necessarily want to hear. They will often tell him what he wants to hear, rather than the truth. He then goes on to say that these words can be hard to hear and even harder to accept, but it is more important for you to hear them than for him to say them.

Source: The Dissident

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