Repression Quotes

160 quotes by 137 authors

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. — Herbert Marcuse
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says… — Michel Foucault
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing… — Arthur Miller
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is… — Alain Badiou
Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've… — Chris Kraus
Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept… — George Gerbner
I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression,… — Assata Shakur
The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'. — John Lennon
So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward… — William Allen White
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome… — Paul Tillich
People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the… — Brian Friel
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression… — Peter Singer
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect. — Mahatma Gandhi
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
We suffer from a repression of the sublime. — Roberto Assagioli
Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries, blue plums, blueberries,… — Tae Yun Kim
Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others.… — Gertrude Stein
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back… — Ike Skelton
One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people… — Hakim Bey
I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the… — Aung San

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