When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails. — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
“She looked as if she were about to burst into tears, but she was wonderful at catching the ball of her own… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Repression speaks about sex better than any other form of discourse / or so the modern experts maintain. How do people /… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without… — Doc Childre 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
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
“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
“... 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
“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
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
“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
“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
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed. — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Repression, a degree of restraint, and a little dedication to self-editing belong to love just as surely as a capacity for explicit… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“And it was that when we ceased to depend on small-group gathering...based society to a more sedentary life... that an enormously significant… — John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication Copy Share Image
I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Expression is life; repression is suicide. When you live a repressed life, you live not at all.” — Osho Copy Share Image
