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“... fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.”

Government Lying Hate Evil Opportunity Path Safety Stable Remedy Repression Fitting Hate Me Menace Grievance

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.”

“The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable.”

Want Moments Shows Bigs Differences Emotion Victim Warrior Repression Refrain Right Moment Impeccable

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

Values Emotional Comfort Worship Traditional Consumers Hypocrisy Goods Conformity Genocide Aggression Repression American Values

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

Way Long Has Beens Effort Attitude Opinion Struggle Violence Mets Massive Long Way Repression Regression Long Way To Go

Book:Who Rules the World?

Source: Who Rules the World?

“The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.”

People Party Mass Guilt Committed Enormous Repression Lawlessness Unforgivable Entourage

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship.”

Want Names Violence Argument Alternatives Empires Hardship Repression Hegemony Primacy

Author:Niall Ferguson

“Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.”

Desire Repression Exaggerated Portrayal

Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.”

Has Beens Desire Interesting Secret Revolution Keys Details Sexuality Scales Features Repression Interesting Things Publication Exaggerated Large Scale Portrayal Sexual Revolution Commercialization

Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute intellectually to the historic process of taking Tunisia from the era of repression to one of democracy.”

People Wish Process Democracy Movement Office Standing Eras Historic Repression Tunisia

Author:Rashid al-Ghannushi

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

Trying Mind Force Repression

Book:A Woman's Guide to Tantra Yoga

Source: A Woman's Guide to Tantra Yoga

“Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.”

Conscience Repression Truth Will Set You Free

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.”

Government Hate Stable Repression Hate Me Menace

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“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.”

Thinking Writing Children Self Helping Teach Repression

Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.”

Made Ideas States Force Conscious Resistance Analysis Repression

Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.”

Wells Cutting Ego Communicate Resistance Repression Repressed

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Seems Suffering Enjoy Ten Indulge Repression

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.”

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

Energy Deals Painting Lifts Censorship Veils Repression Unleashed

Author:Michele Cassou

“Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,' then we are in full flight from ourselves. I even wonder whether religion itself and the whole idea of a god is produced by our self-disgust.”

Ifs Ideas Self Matter Whole Problem Wonder Serious Flight Disgusting Repression Health Problems

Author:Colin McGinn

“He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension indicated repression and blocked the expression of affect. An example is the tight holding of the chest area as a sign of repressed feelings of need and longing.”

Needs Character Feelings Individual Walks Example Expression Type Areas Breaths Longing Patterns Tension Chests Repression Stance Blocked Repressed

Author:Judith Lynne Hanna

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

People Heart Disappear Jail Repression

Book:My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

“I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.”

Men Should Doe Earth Pleasure Results Share Disease Raises Smell Nervous Inevitable Repression Stunting

Author:Sigmund Freud

“When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.”

People Kids Age Situation Break Clear Rocks Revolution Needed Loud Rock And Roll Repression Break Through Unfeeling

Author:John Lennon

“You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.”

People Giving School Together Break Students Authority Happenings University Locals Council Repression Get Together Reins

Author:John Lennon

“Obviously people's feelings are going to get hurt when you use certain words, but you can't outlaw words. They're really the history of our culture. They tell you what's going on. When you make words politically incorrect you're taking all the poetry out of the language. I'm pro anybody living their lives the way they want to live, sexually and otherwise; and I'm anti any kind of language repression.”

People Way Want Kind Use Feelings Certain Culture Language Hurt Repression Sexually Outlaw

Author:David Duchovny

“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.”

Reading Nations Black Etc Fierce Savages Repression Columns Register Obituary Inmates Hamptons

Book:Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

Source: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

“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.”

Desire Strange Longing Photograph Aliens Landscape Internals Repression Angst Exotic

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.”

“So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop us from supporting sanctions. It has to be the other way around: dialogue first, then we stop our call for sanctions, because sanctions make people understand that you cannot exercise repression and at the same time expect international support.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Support Exercise Calling Authority International Dialogue Repression Sanctions Ploy

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Three Growing Up Growing Towns Catholic Layers Small Town Repression Midwest Growing Up In A Small Town

Author:Paul Rust

“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.”

Mean Emotional Judgment Anger Management Blame Reactions Frustration Engagement Engaging Repression Saying No Anger Management Just Say No Emotional Reactions

Author:Doc Childre

“[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.”

People Doe Cases Crime Alcohol Driven Organized Jail Repression Prohibition Organized Crime

Author:Sam Branson

“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.”

People Kind Different Culture Attitude Produce Police Different Kinds Repression Fatalism

Author:Vijay Prashad

“That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile countries, in these places of crisis, there isn't the psychosocial support. There aren't counseling services. It's not in a lot of cultures to explicitly talk about things that maybe have happened to the body. So, repression of emotion, and shame, and guilt is something that really needs to be handled in humanitarian crises.”

Needs Country Body Happens Culture Girl Emotion Support Happened Speech Shame Crisis Guilt Humanitarian Fragile Assault Repression Counseling Shame And Guilt

Author:Natalie Dormer

“The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.”

People Way Issues Criticism Method Democratic Settling Discussion Persuasion Repression Coercion Controversial Ideological Controversial Issues

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

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

Happens Action Silence Repression

Author:Brendon Burchard

“I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression, from terrorism, to live as human beings freely in this free world. That is what I am looking for. I am not asking for the moon. I am asking for the United Nations legality to be implemented.”

World Humans Nations Human Beings United Sun Generations Moon Asking Terrorism Far Away United Nations Repression New Generation Being Free Free World Legality

Author:Yasser Arafat

“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.”

Reality Historical Notion Repression Playboy

Author:Hugh Hefner

“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.”

Home Creation Response Raised Typical Repression Playboy

Author:Hugh Hefner

“It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside of Cuba that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime.”

People Feels Sorrow Regimes Cuba Repression Atrocities Cuban Castro Inside And Outside Totalitarian Regimes Deep Sorrow

Author:Andy Garcia

“It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent press, and so on. Right after that, the anti-immigration law was passed that remained in place until the 1960s.”

People World Firsts War Law Serious Independent Presses Unions Immigration Destroyed Posts War Of The Worlds World War I 1960s Repression Wilson Immigration Laws

Author:Noam Chomsky

“On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of homosexuality does not date back to Christianity properly speaking, but developed within the Christian era at a much later date. In this type of analysis it is important to be aware of the way in which people conceived of their own sexuality.”

People Way Doe Has Beens Important Christian Levels Results Christianity Type Discovery Sexuality Eras Analysis Homosexuality Repression Methodology

Author:Michel Foucault

“Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repression, malice, dishonesty, marginalization and exclusion in the academic world.”

World Enough Happens Easy Enjoy Unique Privilege Ugly Categories Unusual Academic Dishonesty Malice Repression Exclusion Illustration Marginalization

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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.”

Thinking Mean Use Government Religious Weapons Resistance Oppression Opposition Repression Mute

Author:Elie Wiesel

“One of the things you can learn from a figure like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is that if you take all the resources of the state for yourself, you don't build much of a constituency and you have to rely on repression, and repression is difficult in the modern world.”

Ifs World States Difficult Modern Figures Resources Rely Modern World Repression Venezuela Chavez

Author:David Frum

“Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning violent Palestinian resistance while remaining silent in the face of Israeli crackdowns and political arrests, they are simply endorsing violence against civilians by one side instead of the other.”

Has Beens Faces Political Sides Leader Violence Silent Violent Resistance Abandon Palestinian Civilians Israeli Repression Condemning Endorsing Remaining Silent

Author:Yousef Munayyer

“We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.”

People Humans Kind Nations Consciousness Support Groups Share Conditions Heal Therapy Fascism Denied Human Condition Repression Psychologist Rationalism Underworld Milieu Support Groups

Author:Adrienne Rich

“The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for having taken our riches for so many years. I am speaking of the superpowers that dominate the life of the world. More concretely, the World Bank, the IMF. Those that have caused and tolerated the death of our people, those responsible for the plundering of the third world. Silence is also part of repression.”

“Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like my judgmentalism; I didn't like my absolutism. I didn't like my repression of natural empathy, my pinched lack of emotional generosity. How I had been thinking politically had less to do with what was wrong with the world and more to do with what was wrong with me, with my fears and insecurities, failings, weaknesses.”

Thinking World Facts House Natural My Own Failing Emotional Empathy Weakness Generosity Insecurity Repression Absolutism

Author:Steve Erickson

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