Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud 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
The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory… — Frank Hardy Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
“My body’s a battlefield. Victory’s a void filled, a memory vanquished momentarily.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
“Human intelligence is nothing but the stupidity acquired through repression.” — Georg Groddeck Copy Share Image
“Religious repression is the denial of the very essence of what it means to be human.” — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Technology is neutral. But the process of technology will cause a free world to become ever freer, and a totalitarian world to… — Ma Boyong Copy Share Image
“While repression stifles desire, addiction attaches desire, bonds and enslaves the energy of desire to certain specific behaviors, things, or people. These… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Copy Share Image
If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I… — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“... the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators… — R. U. Sirius Copy Share Image
“I practiced what the Dalai Lama calls 'inner disarmament.' Of course, I still had judgments, but I tried to accept even my… — Mary Bray Pipher Copy Share Image
“He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men,… — Leon Eisenberg Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
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