One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

— Susan Glaspell

The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an…

— Wilhelm Reich

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

— William Wilberforce

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of…

— Bertrand Russell

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could…

— David Halberstam

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression…

— Anthony Lewis

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

— Anonymous

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of…

— Tom Robbins

“They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were…

— Rose Macaulay

In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,…

— June Jordan

Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing…

— Walter Lippmann

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no…

— Carl Sagan

A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean…

— Petra Kelly