I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it… — Pol Pot 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
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
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
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions. — Murray Levin Copy Share Image
“Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.” — B.G. Bowers 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
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed. — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action. — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. — Bobby Sands 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
“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
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
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
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