“It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of… — John Schaar Copy Share Image
Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up… — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the… — Kaz Cooke Copy Share Image
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“The question I would like to pose is not, Why are we repressed? but rather, Why do we say, with so much… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Whether the recollection is of fascist Italy in the 1920s, of Nazi Germany of the 1930s, of the Soviet Union during the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Why are you dressed as a man?" Neeva said. "Why do you act like..." She paused. "Why do you act like... like… — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the… — Holly Sklar Copy Share Image
I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and… — Roberto Assagioli Copy Share Image
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“The AK-47 was christened with blood not as a tool for liberation or to defend the Soviet Union from invaders. It made… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
The pedagogy of authoritarianism is alive and well in the United States, and its repression of public memory takes place not only… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted… — Daniel Kofman Copy Share Image
“... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For in the end, alcohol is merely us, a materialization of our own nature. To repress it is to repress something that… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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