Repression Quotes
160 quotes by 137 authors
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Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are…
— John Schaar
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Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the…
— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to…
— Phillip Noyce
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The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom.…
— Arthur Miller
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The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To…
— Robert M. Hutchins
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The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages,…
— Louis Althusser
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The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and…
— Max Stirner
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I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment,…
— Andrew Sullivan
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Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when…
— Victor Hugo
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We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,…
— Joan Didion
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
— Karl Abraham
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The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's…
— Lawrence Wright
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When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month,…
— C. Wright Mills
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San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't…
— Harvey Milk
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America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression;…
— Camille Paglia
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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant…
— Bob Brown
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Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
— Michel Gondry
Who Wrote These Repression Quotes
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