The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“There is a much greater skepticism toward the memories of those who claim abuse than toward the memories of those who deny… — Sue Campbell Copy Share Image
As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression. — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
“You could continue to repress and think about the life you could have had or you can take what you want from… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
Without question, purity is beautiful. We're not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your… — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't know whether the movement crashed as a result of the overwhelming character of the institutions we set out to change.… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“There seems to be a vicious cycle at work here, making ours not just an economy but a culture of extreme inequality.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“Betty Rollin says it best when she writes: “I know the theory that says men are as scared as we are and… — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“Repression is dangerous. It makes anvils of memories and drops them from impossible heights when you least expect it.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape. — Vimala McClure Copy Share Image
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has… — George Jackson Copy Share Image
I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it! — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is… — Leopoldo Lopez Copy Share Image
Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
