Concepts Quote by Walter Kiechel

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

— John Steinbeck

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

— Anonymous

“Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.”

— Octavia E. Butler

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the…

— Serge Schmemann

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

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

— John Steinbeck

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and…

— Frank Herbert

And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use…

— George Orwell

“... but in the depths of their hearts, in that true and ultimate depth which is revealed to no one, there remained the memory…

— Ivo Andrić

Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made…

— Veronica Roth

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

— Wole Soyinka

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

— Meridel Le Sueur