I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships. — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists,… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.” — Dwight E. Abbott Copy Share Image
It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable… — Otto Gross Copy Share Image
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions. — Murray Levin Copy Share Image
Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
One of the things you can learn from a figure like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is that if you take all the resources… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“repression, which “proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he… — Joseph Sandler Copy Share Image
“Religion must now recognize that our deep antisocial impulses when denied and repressed do not disappear miraculously from reality; the more we… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud 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… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
“But given the changes that had already taken place in economic and political institutions, long-run repression was not a solution in England.… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance… — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Copy Share Image
Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
Knife crime isn't an issue that's going to go away just because of repression and police action. Of course we need to… — Vincent Kompany Copy Share Image
You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
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