Repression Quotes

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 policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

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

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

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be...

The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.

Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships.

Great repressions create dualities.

Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard to tell the difference sometimes.

The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.

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

See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.

I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.

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. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads to violence.

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

The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.

There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.

Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.