Repress Quotes
84 quotes by 75 authors
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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
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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.
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Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.
— George Santayana
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife
— Confucius
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From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
— Lauryn Hill
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Repress Quotes
75 authors contributed a total of 84 Repress Quotes, led by these top contributors: