Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
“People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their tail.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties. — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties. — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
“She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
“The disowned part of self is an energy - an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous.… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The character had repressed all his guilt and self-doubt, the things that might make him appealing to viewers. He was simply a… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
I was not - even the notion of "could not" seems to suggest a moment of recognition, but it was such a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more… — Mary Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or… — Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“Miss Skeeter say maybe don't spec nothing at all, that most Southern peoples is "repressed." If they feel something, they might not… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I think I've got better at expressing my emotions. But going through the education system I went through - I don't think… — Julian Ovenden Copy Share Image
I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“Old repressed antipathy stirred in her. She had a rooted fear of rooms full of objects. They weighed on down and held… — Cora Sandel Copy Share Image
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image