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Repression Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease…
- 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…
- Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological,…
More Repression Quotes
- The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. — W. E. B. Du Bois
- The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless… — Conrad Black
- Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the… — Charles Dickens
- Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.… — Mahatma Gandhi
- Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and… — Spiro T. Agnew
- Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything… — Eugene Ionesco
- Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass… — Benjamin Netanyahu
- I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that… — Oscar Romero