Repressive Quotes

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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. — Theodor Adorno
I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used… — Jo Brand
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit,… — Noam Chomsky
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.… — Henry George
If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we… — Carter Heyward
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down… — Harry S. Truman
My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal… — Jack Nicholson
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order… — Joseph Beuys
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something… — Gilles Deleuze
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. — Don DeLillo
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have… — Mohamed ElBaradei
Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as… — Amartya Sen
If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a… — Jane Rule
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This… — Ahmed Ben Bella
The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception. — Leopoldo Lopez
With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's… — Charles S. Maier
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century… — James Hillman
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive. — Luc Ferrari
The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic,… — Kirkpatrick Sale

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