Suppression Quotes

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Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that… — Carl Sandburg
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. — James Harvey Robinson
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under… — Edward Alsworth Ross
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the… — Vladimir Lenin
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And… — Vladimir Lenin
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt
With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that… — James Madison
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth… — Shakti Gawain
Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the… — Jennifer Granholm
The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape… — Rush Limbaugh
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been… — Ida B. Wells
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W.… — Naomi Wolf
The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the… — Ayn Rand
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. — Carl Sagan
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place… — Carl Sagan
the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives… — Mahatma Gandhi
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. — Merlin Stone
While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing… — Alexander Lowen

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