Repression Quotes

160 quotes by 137 authors

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to… — Hazel Henderson
Without question, purity is beautiful. We're not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your dignity and worth. — Jason Evert
Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women,… — Kaz Cooke
It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it… — Alice Miller
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness… — Alice Miller
Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we. — Naomi Klein
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. — Lionel Blue
If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and… — Laozi
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. — Abbie Hoffman
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. — William Allen White
The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes… — Paul Krassner
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere… — Bernadette Devlin
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. — Thomas Szasz
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. Where educational deprivation… — Wendy Kopp
Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. — Jared Diamond
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength. — Isabel Allende
The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory is clouded with… — Frank Hardy
The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. — Tony Blair
New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced… — Ernest Gruening

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