Suppression Quotes

95 quotes by 84 authors

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. — Saul Bellow
I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind… — Hillary Clinton
Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act. — Unknown Author
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external… — William Godwin
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the… — Francis Galton
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in… — Carl Sagan
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. — Gerrit Smith
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. — Albert Camus
The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression. — Alexander Berkman
Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable. — Anna Julia Cooper
We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United States to stop… — Osama bin Laden
When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement… — George Orwell
Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal.… — Nigel Lawson
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to… — Sidney Blumenthal
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,… — Thomas Jefferson
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary… — Vaclav Havel
But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are… — Joseph Brodsky
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots. — Emile M. Cioran

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