Repress Quotes

84 quotes by 75 authors

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana
Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and… — Rajneesh
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or… — Margaret Atwood
In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on… — Rajneesh
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a… — Albert Schweitzer
Heartache is good. Accept it joyously. Allow it, don't repress it. The natural tendency of the mind is to repress anything that is painful. By… — Rajneesh
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in… — Henry George
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs… — Eugene Ionesco
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for… — Joseph Goebbels
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence… — Vladimir Lenin
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife — Confucius
From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress. — Lauryn Hill
They're Democrats always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the… — Ann Coulter
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud, too,… — Gary Valentine
Don't repress your needs and feelings. They fester, becoming corrosive and destructive in your relationships. In a calm, loving way, tell the people in your… — Jillian Michaels
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you… — Bat for Lashes
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not… — Christopher Hitchens
Why is so much sex needed? Because you are tense, sex becomes a release. Your tensions are released through it - you feel relaxed, you… — Rajneesh

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