Repressed Quotes · Page 2

The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.

— Michael Leunig

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

— Karl Kraus

“He is exiled in a school where to often his capacity for constructive growth and self realization is repressed.”

— Paula Polk Lillard

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

— Ezra Furman

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

— Benjamin Franklin

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

— Kate Millett

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

— Anthony Hopkins

I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

— Anne Desclos

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he…

— Theodor Reik

Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel,…

— Frederick Lenz

The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred…

— Germaine Greer

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of…

— Sylvia Plath

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more…

— Mary Whitehouse

Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel…

— Bertrand Russell

Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and…

— Carl Jung

What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or…

— Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really…

— Jay Roach

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous.…

— Alice Miller

In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt…

— Paul Tillich

I was not - even the notion of "could not" seems to suggest a moment of recognition, but it was such a…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt…

— George Carlin

The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it…

— Sigmund Freud

“People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their tail.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.”

— Joseph Heller

“She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.”

— Iris Murdoch

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

— Jeremy Renner

There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and…

— Tom Hooper

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was…

— Paul Rodgers

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that…

— Boris Johnson

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct…

— Alan Watts

“Old repressed antipathy stirred in her. She had a rooted fear of rooms full of objects. They weighed on down and held…

— Cora Sandel

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly…

— Isabella Beeton

I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at…

— Mary Daly

The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of…

— Thomas Malthus

The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other…

— J. G. Ballard

Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.…

— Wendy Kopp