Facts Quote by John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

Repression is fantastic.

— Courteney Cox

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Great repressions create dualities.

— Anais Nin

“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

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

— Herbert Marcuse

History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

— Francis James Grimke

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

— Boots Riley

History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

— Pramila Jayapal

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

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

— Robert Kennedy