The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“The material living standard of the working class is being deliberately repressed by the fascist state because this is now a precondition… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“In the absence of strong political movements for human rights, the active process of bearing witness inevitably gives way to the active… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Here are two enormous worlds side by side; what's remarkable is how little notice they have taken of each other. If the… — Tamim Ansary Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“The hide was being flayed off the still living body of the Revolution so that a new age could slip in to… — Vasily Grossman 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… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ...… — George Gerbner Copy Share Image
He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning… — Yousef Munayyer Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
“Everyone starved. Starvation is a potent weapon, and the Bolsheviks are happy to wield it. The cheapest way to get rid of… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I study Carl Jung, who talks a lot about the shadow side, the repressed side. I think the scariest thing in the… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Still, Depestre does not shy away from showing the ways that a town, or a country, as he has stated in several… — René Depestre Copy Share Image
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression… — Octavian Paler Copy Share Image
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system was strategically employed to force African Americans back into a system of extreme repression and control, a tactic… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life… — William Allen White Copy Share Image