Repression Quotes

Repression Quote of the day

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

Without question, purity is beautiful. We're not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your dignity and worth.

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

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

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.

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

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.