“The university doesn’t free women but completes their repression.” — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
“She looked as if she were about to burst into tears, but she was wonderful at catching the ball of her own… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action. — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
The love of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is reliant on the restrictions of Regency culture, their passion is created by repression. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“And it was that when we ceased to depend on small-group gathering...based society to a more sedentary life... that an enormously significant… — John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication Copy Share Image
I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“repression, which “proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he… — Joseph Sandler Copy Share Image
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the things you can learn from a figure like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is that if you take all the resources… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
“When you’re finally finished crying, I hope you run as fast and as far as you possibly can from me. When you… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
“subjected. In Discipline and Punish Foucault shows that alongside the maturation of the capitalist system of production the scientific location & elucidation… — Charles Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Most people do exactly the opposite. Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) that the sex instinct, more than any other, must be repressed if ruling elites are… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“-The very absence of the freedom to criticise against your own or any other government is all the more a reason to… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
“I do not understand my own behavior; I do not act as I mean to, but I do the things that I… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Setting aside the truth value of the UFO phenomenon, it is an interesting sociological reality that so many people are unwilling to… — Richard Dolan Copy Share Image
“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes, we hide things so deep that we forget they’re there.” — Samantha Sotto Yambao Copy Share Image
To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Yes, fear and repression may be permanent citizens in Narendra Modi's Gujarat. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image