Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“My body’s a battlefield. Victory’s a void filled, a memory vanquished momentarily.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
The machine of repression can only be started, it can't be stopped - even by Putin. — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
“The university doesn’t free women but completes their repression.” — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and… — Rand Paul 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
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action. — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the… — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of… — John Schaar Copy Share Image
Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up… — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I would like to assure you that there is no organization or any sort of repression against people who don’t agree with… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
When there is nothing to desire, there is nothing to dream about either, because dreams are reflections of your desires. Dreams are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33 Freyd: The term "multiple personality" itself assumes that there is "single personality" and there is evidence… — David L. Calof 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
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“You see, the system was set up after the political assassination of John F. Kennedy to bring in more repression. And then… — Mae Brussell 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
“George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) that the sex instinct, more than any other, must be repressed if ruling elites are… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist” — Philippe Lejeune Copy Share Image
Complexity emerges from unexpected outcomes it is also used as a tool of repression. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.” — Tao Te Ching Copy Share Image
