Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it! — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“The disowned part of self is an energy - an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of… — D. H. Lawrence 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
“Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance thus guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a… — Glenn Greenwald 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
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
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and… — Harry S. Truman 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
We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
“For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is… — Leopoldo Lopez Copy Share Image
1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Let's face it: much of what we truly value in life is rooted in our experience of repression and conflict. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
“There is a much greater skepticism toward the memories of those who claim abuse than toward the memories of those who deny… — Sue Campbell Copy Share Image
As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Repression is dangerous. It makes anvils of memories and drops them from impossible heights when you least expect it.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
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![“[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.” quote by Sam Branson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/212/sam-branson-36458_alcohol_as-in-the-case-of-alcohol-prohibition-il_8703.jpg)
