Suppression Quotes

“The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.”

— Annie Dillard

“When you suppress your darkness you also suppress your light.”

— Bryant McGill

“They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Expression is never helped by suppression.

— Anonymous

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

— Vida Dutton Scudder

One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

— Christian Tissier

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

— Saint Augustine

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

— Dov Davidoff

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

— Carl Sagan

The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression…

— Julianne Malveaux

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

— William Wilberforce

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation…

— Audre Lorde

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

— Louis D. Brandeis

“The suppression of the State cannot be a languid affair; it must be the task of the Revolution to finish with the…

— Noam Chomsky

The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who…

— Hilaire Belloc

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government…

— Anthony Lewis

The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal…

— Dorothee Solle

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to…

— Alexander Meiklejohn

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect -…

— Rose Macaulay

All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us.…

— Clara Fraser

In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what…

— Carl Sandburg

Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the…

— Alexander Meiklejohn

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and…

— Alice Walker

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be…

— Vaclav Havel

Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research…

— Lloyd deMause

Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right…

— Charles A. Beard

A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and…

— Petra Kelly

Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has…

— Michael Tsarion

When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic…

— Bill Maher

“There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is…

— Alexander Lowen

“Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life--to be tame or to be wanton. To be…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that…

— Christine de Pizan

“The most effective weapon a parent has to control a child is the withdrawal of love or its threat. A young child…

— Alexander Lowen

“If we are to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they…

— Edward Livingston

“It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or…

— Bruce Crown

“More than half a century ago, the classic novels of totalitarianism warned of the domination of screens, the suppression of books, the…

— Timothy Snyder

“Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to…

— Jared Diamond