The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“The AK-47 was christened with blood not as a tool for liberation or to defend the Soviet Union from invaders. It made… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.” — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The material living standard of the working class is being deliberately repressed by the fascist state because this is now a precondition… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one-… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression,… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the… — Kaz Cooke Copy Share Image
“Being in a state of denial is a universally human response to situations which threaten to overwhelm. People who were abused as… — Sarah E. Olson Copy Share Image
“Betty Rollin says it best when she writes: “I know the theory that says men are as scared as we are and… — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For in the end, alcohol is merely us, a materialization of our own nature. To repress it is to repress something that… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ...… — George Gerbner Copy Share Image
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“You could continue to repress and think about the life you could have had or you can take what you want from… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
I study Carl Jung, who talks a lot about the shadow side, the repressed side. I think the scariest thing in the… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has… — George Jackson Copy Share Image
I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image