Freedom Quote by Salman Rushdie

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— Anne Carson

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

— Herbert Marcuse

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

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

— Frederick Lenz

The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

— Frederick Lenz

“Far more perversions arise from repression than from expression”

— Brandi Lynn Ryder

Repression is fantastic.

— Courteney Cox

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

— Tao Te Ching

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

“More than economic dependency of the wife and children on the husband and father is needed to preserve the institution of the authoritarian family…

— Wilhelm Reich