When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Human intelligence is nothing but the stupidity acquired through repression.” — Georg Groddeck Copy Share Image
“Religious repression is the denial of the very essence of what it means to be human.” — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
“Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.” — Frank Tallis Copy Share Image
Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put… — Ike Skelton Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
“The universal dress of philosophy and philanthropy can conceal repression, violations of the true personal, human, local, civil, and national freedom” — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
“When you’re finally finished crying, I hope you run as fast and as far as you possibly can from me. When you… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I… — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,'… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“When understanding fails, there is always more force in reserve. As the "experiments in material and human resources control" collapse and "revolutionary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Often, her mate is the child of a narcissist, already indoctrinated to regard exploitation and disregard as love. Others lured by the… — Elan Golomb Copy Share Image
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for… — Martin McGuinness 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
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Not even seven thousands years of joy can justify seven days of repression.” — Hafez Copy Share Image
“Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist” — Philippe Lejeune Copy Share Image
“The university doesn’t free women but completes their repression.” — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.” — Tao Te Ching Copy Share Image
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
It's a shame - we've got so many hilarious women, and think there's a certain repression there. — Emily Atack Copy Share Image
Complexity emerges from unexpected outcomes it is also used as a tool of repression. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
