Far more perversions arise from repression than from…

Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's…

— Jack Nicholson

Repression will provoke rebellion.

— Hugh Williamson

“repression, which “proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he measures his…

— Joseph Sandler

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not…

— Sam Branson

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

— Michael Parenti

“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires…

— Alain de Botton

What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that…

— Michel Foucault

“Often, her mate is the child of a narcissist, already indoctrinated to regard exploitation and disregard as love. Others lured by the narcissistic aura…

— Elan Golomb

“Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance thus guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a tool of…

— Glenn Greenwald

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

— Germaine Greer

It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent press, and…

— Noam Chomsky

Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Let's face it: much of what we truly value in life is rooted in our experience of repression and conflict.

— Tom Malinowski

Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different…

— Gene Sharp