Boxes Quote by Graham Joyce

“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

Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Repression is fantastic.

— Courteney Cox

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

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will…

— Michel Foucault

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

“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

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

— John Steinbeck

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

— Herbert Marcuse

“Repression speaks about sex better than any other form of discourse / or so the modern experts maintain. How do people / get power…

— Anne Carson

“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

— John Steinbeck