Best Suppress Lines
213 Suppress quotes by 179 unique authors
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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
— Aleister Crowley
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you…
— Larry David
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
— Robertson Davies
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
— Frederick Douglass
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Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
— Bob Dylan
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created…
— Garrett Hardin
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Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
— Sheikh Hasina
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Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
— Kesha
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It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
— Dalai Lama
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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at…
— Archibald MacLeish
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
— Moliere
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Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause…
— Peace Pilgrim
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids…
— Anna Quindlen
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Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom.…
— Mitt Romney
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
— Salman Rushdie
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
— Carl Sagan
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We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of…
— Theodore C. Sorensen
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
— Wole Soyinka
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
— Ichiro Suzuki
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Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional…
— Marianne Williamson
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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult…
— Liu Xiaobo
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As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy…
— Philip Pullman
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You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the…
— Hermann Hesse
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Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys.…
— David Gerrold
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The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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