The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded… — Sarah Gavron Copy Share Image
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything… — Eugene Ionesco 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
He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension… — Judith Lynne Hanna 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
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 white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The hide was being flayed off the still living body of the Revolution so that a new age could slip in to… — Vasily Grossman 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
“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I don't know whether the movement crashed as a result of the overwhelming character of the institutions we set out to change.… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“There seems to be a vicious cycle at work here, making ours not just an economy but a culture of extreme inequality.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space… — R. D. Laing 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
“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
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The pedagogy of authoritarianism is alive and well in the United States, and its repression of public memory takes place not only… — Henry Giroux 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
I don't think sexual repression leads to violence, but I can see the situation where you're trying very hard to be very… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and… — Roberto Assagioli 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
“... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who's next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?' If these illegal interventions are permitted… — Daniel Kofman Copy Share Image
Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Too many of us move through our lives with our true selves buried below layers of repressed emotion. With so much energy… — Jeff Brown Copy Share Image
Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Some sense that to repress feelings of their childhood is to poison the very well-springs of life; they know that though repression… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Setting aside the truth value of the UFO phenomenon, it is an interesting sociological reality that so many people are unwilling to… — Richard Dolan Copy Share Image