The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships. — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists,… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable… — Otto Gross Copy Share Image
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions. — Murray Levin Copy Share Image
“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.” — Dwight E. Abbott Copy Share Image
Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“repression, which “proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he… — Joseph Sandler Copy Share Image
It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance… — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
“But given the changes that had already taken place in economic and political institutions, long-run repression was not a solution in England.… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute… — Rashid al-Ghannushi 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
“Most people do exactly the opposite. Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place… — Carla Lonzi Copy Share Image
“-The very absence of the freedom to criticise against your own or any other government is all the more a reason to… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Being in a state of denial is a universally human response to situations which threaten to overwhelm. People who were abused as… — Sarah E. Olson Copy Share Image
It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“I do not understand my own behavior; I do not act as I mean to, but I do the things that I… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.” — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
Repression and intimidation are not - and never should be - the acceptable companions of reform. — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will… — William Hague Copy Share Image
“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.” — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by… — Daniel Guérin Copy Share Image
“Emperors uphold censorship, But extreme repression leads to extreme reaction. Individualists believe in freedom, But extreme expression leads to extreme reaction.” — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
![“repression, which “proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he measures his actual ego [self]…. For the ego the formation of an ideal would be the conditioning factor of repression” (1914c, pp. 93-94).” quote by Joseph Sandler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/feb/joseph-sandler-102577_identity_repression-which-proceeds-from-the-self_7627.jpg)
![“I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5de/elie-wiesel-341_government_i-don-t-think-governments-use-religious_1337960.png)
