Repression Quotes

“Help! Help! I'm being repressed!”

— Terry Gilliam

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

— Michael Parenti

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

— C. K. Williams

“All lived lives of dignity and repression.”

— Mary Lou Foster Cooper

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

— Roberto Assagioli

Power tends to get confused with repression.

— Olivia Wilde

The seed of revolution is repression.

— Woodrow Wilson

“Repression was the favored food of heresy.”

— Greg Keyes

Yes, fear and repression may be permanent citizens in Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

— Barkha Dutt

“I think sometimes, we hide things so deep that we forget they’re there.”

— Samantha Sotto Yambao

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

— William Allen White

When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

— Kate Morton

“Far more perversions arise from repression than from expression”

— Brandi Lynn Ryder

“Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.”

— B.G. Bowers

“Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.”

— B.G. Bowers

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

— Marjane Satrapi

To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.”

— Bryant McGill

Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.

— Hilary Mantel

“Technology is neutral. But the process of technology will cause a free world to become ever freer, and a totalitarian world to…

— Ma Boyong

The love of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is reliant on the restrictions of Regency culture, their passion is created by repression.

— Sara Pascoe

I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.

— Fiona Bruce

“The Bog Kingdom. Bidding him enter! Ah, enter! There, all wishes are fulfilled. The more forbidden, the more delicious.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected…

— Alice Miller

“Repression isn’t the answer. I know that. It’s one of the things that punish the body for what’s closed up in the…

— Nora Roberts

I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression,…

— Yasser Arafat

“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out…

— Kate Zambreno

“I want to remember my past To see before my eyes The image of my parents The house in which I grew…

— Itta Benhaiem-Keller

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

New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped,…

— Ernest Gruening

A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for…

— John Legend

“Repressing is a natural instinct, but it doesn't allow for healing. Coming out of repression can be very similar to reliving the…

— Gwen Hayes

“For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place…

— Carla Lonzi

“-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

“There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is…

— Alexander Lowen

I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me…

— Desmond Tutu

“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

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor,…

— Joan Didion

“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

It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that…

— Elliott Abrams