It's a shame - we've got so many hilarious women, and think there's a certain repression there. — Emily Atack Copy Share Image
“Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.” — Frank Tallis Copy Share Image
“Religious repression is the denial of the very essence of what it means to be human.” — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
“Not even seven thousands years of joy can justify seven days of repression.” — Hafez Copy Share Image
When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
“The universal dress of philosophy and philanthropy can conceal repression, violations of the true personal, human, local, civil, and national freedom” — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put… — Ike Skelton 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
I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the… — Kaz Cooke Copy Share Image
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the… — Holly Sklar Copy Share Image
Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
“To understand the phenomenon of avoidance in TMS one must constantly bear in mind how radically the unconscious mind differs from its… — John E. Sarno Copy Share Image
“To defend ourselves from this threat, and to sustain our peace of mind, we make use of a variety of ego-defence mechanisms,… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
“Most people do exactly the opposite. Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a… — Ernest Becker 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
“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
“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
“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
“Human intelligence is nothing but the stupidity acquired through repression.” — Georg Groddeck Copy Share Image
The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“That's Catholicism for you. A perpetual war between repression and excess.” — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
