Repression Quotes

160 quotes by 137 authors

Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is… — Saul Alinsky
As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not… — Christopher Hitchens
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all… — Marjane Satrapi
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish. — Frank Herbert
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times… — Tom Robbins
Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love.… — Graham Swift
Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not.… — Matt Haig
...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people. — Vince Flynn
When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge. — Kate Morton
Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used to… — Gene Sharp
"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.… — Oscar Romero
I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Power tends to get confused with repression. — Olivia Wilde
I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their… — Noam Chomsky
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and… — Noam Chomsky
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index… — Noam Chomsky
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of… — Noam Chomsky
As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will… — Noam Chomsky
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and… — Gordon B. Hinckley
By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina,… — Stephen Kinzer

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