I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
Let's face it: much of what we truly value in life is rooted in our experience of repression and conflict. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
“She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of… — D. H. Lawrence 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
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
... fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance thus guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Some sense that to repress feelings of their childhood is to poison the very well-springs of life; they know that though repression… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Too many of us move through our lives with our true selves buried below layers of repressed emotion. With so much energy… — Jeff Brown Copy Share Image
Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“Setting aside the truth value of the UFO phenomenon, it is an interesting sociological reality that so many people are unwilling to… — Richard Dolan Copy Share Image
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But there are no criminals here Just people surviving against all odds Multi and never ending circumstances of racial repression Class war… — Jonathan Daniel Gomez Copy Share Image
1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped,… — Ernest Gruening Copy Share Image
A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“Repressing is a natural instinct, but it doesn't allow for healing. Coming out of repression can be very similar to reliving the… — Gwen Hayes Copy Share Image
“Repression isn’t the answer. I know that. It’s one of the things that punish the body for what’s closed up in the… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression,… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“I want to remember my past To see before my eyes The image of my parents The house in which I grew… — Itta Benhaiem-Keller Copy Share Image
One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one-… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I would like to assure you that there is no organization or any sort of repression against people who don’t agree with… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When there is nothing to desire, there is nothing to dream about either, because dreams are reflections of your desires. Dreams are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
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