We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society,… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Nonviolent struggle both requires and tends to produce a loss (or greater control) of fear of the government and its violent repression.… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“From 1976 to 1983, Washington supported a devastating military dictatorship in Argentina that ran all branches of government, outlawed elections, and encouraged… — Benjamin Dangl Copy Share Image
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how… — Carlos Eire Copy Share Image
The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel that people need to be educated as to what… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Just wearing the corset means that you can never really relax from the moment that you put it on. So, there's a… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If you were dealing with the accumulated repressions of only one lifetime, it would be different. But these are the repressions of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There are times when only America can make the difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression, between life death. We… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen,… — Aung San Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of… — George Martin Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“...ideas are definitely unstable, they not only CAN be misused, they invite misuse--and the better the idea the more volatile it is.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It is therefore perfectly plausible that memories of childhood sexual abuse could be buried for years and then recalled, and that motivated… — Moheb Costandi Copy Share Image
“We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory… — Frank Hardy Copy Share Image
“[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result - and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Religion must now recognize that our deep antisocial impulses when denied and repressed do not disappear miraculously from reality; the more we… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
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![“[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a53/michel-foucault-1134_desire_t-hus-one-should-not-think-that-desire-i_1660638.jpg)
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