Repression Quotes

160 quotes by 137 authors

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension… — Herbert Marcuse
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to… — Graham Joyce
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this… — John Lindsay
I would like to assure you that there is no organization or any sort of repression against people who donâ€™t agree with our actions, for… — Vladimir Putin
We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make… — Glenn Greenwald
A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love… — John Legend
Itâ€™s unlikely to change â€“ thereâ€™s nothing in King Salmanâ€™s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly… — Elliott Abrams
Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the… — James Hillman
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern… — Sigmund Freud
It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought. — Alice Miller
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially,… — Daniel Ortega
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the… — Hanan Ashrawi
They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression. — Frederick Lenz
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery. — Frederick Lenz
See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and… — Frederick Lenz
I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's… — Frederick Lenz
Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked… — Laurie Garrett
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was… — Robert Kennedy
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not… — Michel Foucault
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. — Pope Francis

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