Repression Quotes

160 quotes by 137 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct â€” and societal repression much more devastating. — D. H. Lawrence
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
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
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
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
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. — Karl Abraham
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it! — Michel Gondry

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