Quote by John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

“Repression is dangerous. It makes anvils of memories and drops them from impossible heights when you least expect it.”

— Kris Kidd

“If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.”

— Tao Te Ching

Repression is fantastic.

— Courteney Cox

“Oppression is the seed of power; you will plant it against yourself”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

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

“Oppression evolves, like everything else.”

— Steve Aylett

“We have a deep interest in denying the forms of oppression which benefit us.”

— Robin DiAngelo

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

— Herbert Marcuse

“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge…

— Paulo Freire

“Come see the violence inherent in the system, HELP I'm being repressed!”

— Monty Python and the Holy Grail