It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short… — Nigel Lawson 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
Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Religion has been a curse on the world and humanity will never know freedom until this curse has been exorcised. It is… — David Icke Copy Share Image
The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“There's more than five senses, it's just one of the ways they suppress us, my precious girl Vibrations are vital for our… — Andrew Edward Lucier Copy Share Image
There's a ripple effect in being underpaid for women. Ten thousand women are turned down every day for domestic abuse shelters. Part… — Patricia Arquette 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
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finger straight up to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence,… — Thomas Emerson 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
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to… — Neil McDonald Copy Share Image
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I’ve checked with Pathology, and… — Jeaniene Frost 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
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Resisting, identifying with, and suppressing emotions is the number one reason why we become so sick and overwhelmed as empaths. But the… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential… — John Peter Zenger Copy Share Image
Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned.… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter… — Marilyn Ferguson 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
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