“While repression stifles desire, addiction attaches desire, bonds and enslaves the energy of desire to certain specific behaviors, things, or people. These… — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“subjected. In Discipline and Punish Foucault shows that alongside the maturation of the capitalist system of production the scientific location & elucidation… — Charles Bernstein Copy Share Image
“It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“From 1976 to 1983, Washington supported a devastating military dictatorship in Argentina that ran all branches of government, outlawed elections, and encouraged… — Benjamin Dangl Copy Share Image
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how… — Carlos Eire Copy Share Image
The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“But there are no criminals here Just people surviving against all odds Multi and never ending circumstances of racial repression Class war… — Jonathan Daniel Gomez Copy Share Image
“Whether the recollection is of fascist Italy in the 1920s, of Nazi Germany of the 1930s, of the Soviet Union during the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
“When you’re finally finished crying, I hope you run as fast and as far as you possibly can from me. When you… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society,… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If you were dealing with the accumulated repressions of only one lifetime, it would be different. But these are the repressions of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Nonviolent struggle both requires and tends to produce a loss (or greater control) of fear of the government and its violent repression.… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Just wearing the corset means that you can never really relax from the moment that you put it on. So, there's a… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
There are times when only America can make the difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression, between life death. We… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen,… — Aung San Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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