Repressive societies always seemed to understand the…

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

— Don DeLillo

Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be part of…

— Wadah Khanfar

There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think…

— Susan Sontag

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the…

— Don DeLillo

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

— John Lydon

The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead of harnessing…

— Matt Salmon

Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran.

— Stephen Kinzer

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that…

— Ben Whishaw

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect…

— Elliott Abrams

My tendency has always been towards strong, repressive roles.

— Tara Fitzgerald

The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized…

— Jane Leavy

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society…

— Eric Idle

The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find…

— Gilles Deleuze

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and…

— Ban Ki-moon

“Mother, have you noticed that this society we’re in tends to be a little…repressive?” “What does that mean, Eugenie? What does that mean, that…

— Donald Barthelme