“The Bog Kingdom. Bidding him enter! Ah, enter! There, all wishes are fulfilled. The more forbidden, the more delicious.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s. — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions. — Murray Levin Copy Share Image
The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“That's Catholicism for you. A perpetual war between repression and excess.” — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put… — Ike Skelton Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,'… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
“Repression speaks about sex better than any other form of discourse / or so the modern experts maintain. How do people /… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“You see, the system was set up after the political assassination of John F. Kennedy to bring in more repression. And then… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“The question I would like to pose is not, Why are we repressed? but rather, Why do we say, with so much… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Why are you dressed as a man?" Neeva said. "Why do you act like..." She paused. "Why do you act like... like… — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
“But there are no criminals here Just people surviving against all odds Multi and never ending circumstances of racial repression Class war… — Jonathan Daniel Gomez Copy Share Image
“From 1976 to 1983, Washington supported a devastating military dictatorship in Argentina that ran all branches of government, outlawed elections, and encouraged… — Benjamin Dangl Copy Share Image
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
I own no TV stations, or Radio Stations or Newspapers. But I feel that people need to be educated as to what… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“...ideas are definitely unstable, they not only CAN be misused, they invite misuse--and the better the idea the more volatile it is.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression. — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
“Repression is dangerous. It makes anvils of memories and drops them from impossible heights when you least expect it.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“There is a much greater skepticism toward the memories of those who claim abuse than toward the memories of those who deny… — Sue Campbell Copy Share Image
“Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.” — Frank Tallis Copy Share Image
Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape. — Vimala McClure Copy Share Image
“Not even seven thousands years of joy can justify seven days of repression.” — Hafez Copy Share Image
