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“Repression isn’t the answer. I know that. It’s one of the things that punish the body for what’s closed up in the mind. It’s…

— Nora Roberts

“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens…

— Salman Rushdie

“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

— John Steinbeck

Great repressions create dualities.

— Anais Nin

“Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex as our…

— C.M. Stunich

“Repression speaks about sex better than any other form of discourse / or so the modern experts maintain. How do people / get power…

— Anne Carson

“repression, which “proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he measures his…

— Joseph Sandler

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

— Herbert Marcuse

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will…

— Michel Foucault

“Perversion is an ends-and-purposes disease. Most broadly understood, perversion is the turning of loyalty, energy, and desire away from God and God’s project in…

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

“Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves.”

— Bryant McGill

“When it is proclaimed that one must become more “sensitive” to various ethnic, linguistic, sexual, or lifestyle groups, neither a reason nor a definition…

— Thomas Sowell