Quotes About Repression

The '50s were a secretive time.

recurring impossibility, a 'return of the repressed'.

For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex).

I'm in this state of one-way desire. I feel this desire swarming in my belly and running up my spine. But I have to constantly contain and compress it so that it doesn't betray me in front of others. Because I've already understood that desire is visible.

Finally, slowly, I raise my head and lean back on my elbows and take in the sight of him. I'm struck by his voracity. He's like a ravenous child who has just been given food and prefers to choke on it. I'm not sure where this need for another man's sex comes from but I sense that on the other side of all the repression and self-censoring there exists an equally powerful fever.

Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist

But a democratic government cannot afford to be as crude as that. It never goes in for summary repression or direct control; it nullifies rather than conceals undesirable news; it controls emphasis rather than facts; it balances bad news with good; it lies directly only when it is certain that the lie will not be found out during the course of the war. This was the method

The germs were already there in the hot, dry summer of 1929, when the crops began to fail on the southern prairies and the boom ran wild and out of hand and the country continued to overbuild on borrowed funds. The Great Depression was beginning and nobody knew it. The Great Repression was already under way but nobody cared. One did not need to visit Munich to see dissidents beaten to the ground. It was happening here.

After more than two decades of traveling with American presidents and chief diplomats - on visits to places that have included some of the world's most repressive nations - I am used to watching leaders disappear behind closed doors.

My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.

Political leaders in Belarus are routinely repressed, and their voices are muffled: Tsikhanouskaya was running for president because her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, was arrested before he could start his own presidential campaign.

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.

Here's the broader inconvenient truth for both Clinton and women's rights that Trump is more than willing to tell voters: Islam, as it is practiced in most countries around the world, suppresses women's rights - the only issue is the degree of severity of the repression.

At times in its history, Christianity has been an instrument of repression. In our living memory, however, it has also been deployed as a means of liberation and progress.

There's a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it.

Minha definição de demônio é um anjo que não foi reconhecido. Melhor dizendo, é um poder seu para o qual você negou expressão, e você reprime. Então, como toda energia reprimida, ela começa a crescer e a tornar-se muito perigosa.

The 'Islamic State', that strange miscegenation of Medina with Westphalia, is always in mortal danger of linking the moral austerity of monotheism with the repressive and supervisor powers of the modern nation state.

Are there labor camps here?" he asked. "No," she said. "Mandatory marriages, forced-criticism sessions, loudspeaker?" She shook her head. "Then I'm not sure I could ever feel free here," he said.

The retreat into sameness—assimilation for those who can manage it—is the most passive and debilitating of responses to political repression, economic insecurity, and a renewed open season on difference.

Aresztowanie Gomu?ki w latach stalinizmu zmazywa?o przynajmniej cz??ciowo jego wcze?niejsze zbrodnie. To prawda, komunista, odpowiedzialny za powojenne bezece?stwa, ale przecie? sam te? przez komunistów szykanowany. Przez te lata w odosobnieniu znalaz? si? po stronie cierpi?cych Polaków. Na nikogo lepszego wówczas nie mogli liczy?.

Suponer que los balseros cubanos abandonan la isla por razones que nada tienen que ver con el régimen de Castro es otra alegre temeridad (...) Todo el mundo sabe que huyen de Castro y lo que él representa para el pueblo cubano en términos no sólo de hambre y penuria, sino también de represión política. Buscan no sólo medios de supervivencia sino otra cosa que han perdido en su isla de infortunios: la libertad.

Dahulu dia selalu katakan apa yang dia pikirkan, tangiskan, apa yang ditanggungkan, teriakan ria kesukaan di dalam hati remaja. Kini dia harus diam- tak ada kuping sudi suaranya.

Dari atas ke bawah yang ada adalah larangan, penindasan, perintah, semprotan, hinaan. Dari bawah ke atas yang ada adalah penjilatan, kepatuhan, dan perhambaan.

the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators who successfully channeled *their* primitive, violent impulses into a socially acceptable form known as 'ruthlessness,' while monopolizing the right to use outright violence as a last resort for maintaining an otherwise indefensible accumulation of power and wealth.