The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and... the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Republicans win when people are demoralized and you have a small voter turnout, which by the way is why they love voter… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine… — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If [Western] relations with Russia are to be friendly, they must be open and sincere, otherwise there can be no friendship at… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Amendment of the constitution is the minority's affair. Constitutions are invented to protect the rights of suppressed groups. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is… — Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr Copy Share Image
The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
“Occupation maybe means when army of another country enters our country and refuses to return to their country on one pretext or… — Tarif Naaz Copy Share Image
Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image