Repression Quotes

160 quotes by 137 authors

The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel,… — Conrad Black
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. — W. E. B. Du Bois
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities,… — Noam Chomsky
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long… — Charles Dickens
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul. — Robert Kennedy
...the workers aren't going to stop struggling. They're going to struggle to have a union and they have the right to have it. The police… — Cesar Chavez
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of… — Spiro T. Agnew
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions. — Murray Levin
Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression. — Dick Feagler
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
Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the… — Benjamin Netanyahu
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty… — Nelson Mandela
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of… — Oscar Romero
I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the… — Oscar Romero
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from… — R. D. Laing
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of… — Martin McGuinness
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease… — Sigmund Freud

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