Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who… — Laila Robins Copy Share Image
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
I couldn't really say that a repressive society would result in creative art. But somehow it does help, it is an ingredient,… — John Kani Copy Share Image
I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead… — Matt Salmon Copy Share Image
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“It is embedded so deeply in the private lives of our more public shifts that we can forget it is there until… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“Mother, have you noticed that this society we’re in tends to be a little…repressive?” “What does that mean, Eugenie? What does that… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet. — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
