British Quote by Matt Haig

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we…

— Tammy Bruce

We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly…

— Leslie Feinberg

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

— Lauren Mayberry

Most people do what they do, not because that is what they want, but because other people expect them to do so.

— Anonymous

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

— Herbert Marcuse

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

— Harvey Milk

We have a responsibility not just as atheletes, but as members of society to treat people well. To do things the right way.

— Alex Rodriguez

“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

We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we…

— Glenn Greenwald

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