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“I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.”

May Dream Three Deals Mechanism Repression

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.”

Asks Responsibility Liberty Violence Equality Bread Denied Repression

Author:Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

“So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.”

Stories Opportunity Term Repression Repressed Volcanoes Unanswered Questions Unanswered

Author:Phillip Noyce

“The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.”

Source: The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.”

Kind Force Powerful Struggle Mass Independence Acquire Genocide Scope Repression Concealed Ukraine Famine Suppression Ukrainian

Author:Leon Trotsky

“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.”

People Long Ideas America Difficult Policy Committed Alternatives Repression

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.”

“The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.”

“I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.”

Thinking Sex Society Instinct Deeper Repression

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.”

Firsts Country Government Politics Left Views Media Criticism Raises Amendments First Amendment Academy Repression Suppression Leftists Citadels

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.”

Mind Fighting Evil Force Stupid Weapons Liberalism Brutes Repression Brute Force Nonsensical Classical Liberalism

Book:The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism

Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism

“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.”

People Writing Play Silence Terrible Dues Tyranny Mysterious Prose Thinker Historian Tyrants Rulers Fullness Repression Filters Despots Hardness

Author:Victor Hugo

“In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.”

Ends Prejudice Academy Repression Grove Vistas Gallows

Author:Edmund Burke

“We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.”

Men Way Action Social Fate Generations Periods Optimism Silent Officials Just One Meaningless Dread Repression Escaping Exhilaration Social Action

Author:Joan Didion

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

Able Instinct Assault Repression Repressed Mania

Book:Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis

Source: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis

“When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.”

Source: White Collar: The American Middle Classes

“America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.”

Stills Country Reason Problem America Space Violence Constant Wide Reason Why Individualism Frontiers Repression Closeness Notorious Open Spaces Regression Eruption Wide Open Spaces

Author:Camille Paglia

“I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.”

Ifs Doe Lifetime Optimistic Immense Homosexuality Repression Criminality

Author:Bob Brown

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

Music Is Pops More Money Repression Pop Music

Author:Michel Gondry

“The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.”

Needs Body Might Speak Liberty Greater Acceptance Personality Development Factors Our Time Latter Organisms Spontaneous Extensions Status Quo Repression Contractions

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“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.”

Humans Has Beens Difficult Boxes Packages Repression Sprung Human Psyche

Author:Graham Joyce

“We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.”

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