Repression Quotes · Page 10

The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German…

— Michael Haneke

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault…

— Barack Obama

I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression,…

— Yasser Arafat

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that…

— Louis D. Brandeis

“My body’s a battlefield. Victory’s a void filled, a memory vanquished momentarily.”

— Kris Kidd

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

— Karl Abraham

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the…

— Hakim Bey

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

— Tony Blair

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward…

— Arthur Miller

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence…

— Michel Foucault

There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and…

— John Lindsay

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious…

— Leonard Mlodinow

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

— John Steinbeck

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the…

— Charles Dickens

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless…

— Conrad Black

The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the…

— Mao Zedong

“I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.”

— Cora Carmack

I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind…

— Joseph Beuys

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was…

— Phillip Noyce

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

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

— Harry Belafonte