Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Knife crime isn't an issue that's going to go away just because of repression and police action. Of course we need to… — Vincent Kompany Copy Share Image
So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was… — Phillip Noyce 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
“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
“But given the changes that had already taken place in economic and political institutions, long-run repression was not a solution in England.… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance… — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
“repression, which “proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he… — Joseph Sandler Copy Share Image
“If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we… — Tom Robbins 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
In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
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
“Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement… — David L. Calof 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
“Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you… — Rudolf Rocker 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
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
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our… — Alain de Botton 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Often, her mate is the child of a narcissist, already indoctrinated to regard exploitation and disregard as love. Others lured by the… — Elan Golomb 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
“When understanding fails, there is always more force in reserve. As the "experiments in material and human resources control" collapse and "revolutionary… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to… — John Steinbeck 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
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