Repression Quotes

160 quotes by 137 authors

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain… — Martha Gellhorn
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression. — Germaine Greer
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and… — Angela Davis
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we… — Angela Davis
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out… — William Hague
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to… — George Jackson
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective… — Leopoldo Lopez
Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of… — Ezra Miller
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by… — Toni Morrison
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments. — Rand Paul
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia… — Vladimir Putin
The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it. — Salman Rushdie
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. — Bobby Sands
The seed of revolution is repression. — Woodrow Wilson
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know… — Don DeLillo
The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it… — Sue Monk Kidd
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. — John Steinbeck
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to… — Os Guinness
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing… — Alexander Lowen

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