Desire Quote by Francis Levy

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape.

— Vimala McClure

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

— Herbert Marcuse

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

— C. K. Williams

“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens…

— Salman Rushdie

“Repression isn’t the answer. I know that. It’s one of the things that punish the body for what’s closed up in the mind. It’s…

— Nora Roberts

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Repression is fantastic.

— Courteney Cox

When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.

— Nazanin Boniadi

“If critical analysis of repression is itself inseparable from repression, then surely to think with any efficacy has to be think in some distinctly…

— Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being.…

— Harry Belafonte

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

— Susie Orbach