Never Quote by Boots Riley

Repression will provoke rebellion.

— Hugh Williamson

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

— Frank Herbert

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

— Simone Weil

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

— Grace Lee Boggs

Authoritarianism leads to Discrimination, discrimination Leads to discontent and discontent Gives rise to rebellion,

— Mak_786

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

— Edmund Burke

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

— John Steinbeck

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has…

— Albert Camus

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

— Louis D. Brandeis

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard…

— Francis Levy

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

— Daniel Day-Lewis