Desire Quote by Michel Foucault

“To be repressed is to be stifled and smothered; to be irrepressible, you must love yourself enough to allow the real you to blossom,…

— Yasmin Davidds

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

— John Steinbeck

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness…

— Michael Leunig

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

— Franz Grillparzer

“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

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

Desire creates the power.

— Raymond Holliwell

“If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else…

— Geoffrey Wood

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

— William Blake

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove…

— Vernon Howard

“In the long run, the pessimism of reactionaries never proves to be justified, but neither does the optimism of revolutionaries. The expansion of human…

— René Girard

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

— Herbert Marcuse