Quotes About Repression

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.

The nightmare scenario is one in which corporate monopolism and statist power-seeking, always natural allies, feed back into each other and create rationales for increasing regulation, repression, and criminalization of digital speech.

The church degraded woman by destroying her self-respect and teaching her to feel consciousness of guilt in the very fact of her existence. To this day, an open, confident look upon a woman's face is deprecated as evil. Death by torture was the method of the church for the repression of woman's intellect, knowledge being held as evil and dangerous in her hands.

It's tiring to carry the weight of eternally unsaid words.

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological control of the society was almost absolute.

Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.

As someone who was once in the closet, I can tell you it is the most sad, dark, awful, depressing place to ever be.

I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country.

Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.

Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.

Dobkin de Rios and Smith13 suggest that spiritual techniques for altering consciousness are typically repressed in state-level societies because they constitute a potential threat to the religious interpretations of those who hold social and religious power.

We are driven by repressed emotional energy. We live life in reaction to childhood emotional wounds. We keep trying to get the healthy attention and affection, the healthy love and nurturing, the being-enhancing validation and respect and affirmation, that we did not get as children.

Daily Law: Keep in mind that power lies in asserting your uniqueness, even if that offends some people along the way. Study your Shadow side today. The Laws of Human Nature, 9: Confront Your Dark Side—The Law of Repression

No te dejes engañar por la reprobación superficial que tu actitud de dandy puede provocar. Aun si la sociedad propala su desconfianza de la androginia (en la teología cristiana Satanás suele representarse como andrógino), con eso no hace otra cosa que esconder su fascinación por ella; lo más seductor es con frecuencia lo más reprimido.

The shadow is something we deny and repress. It is so much easier to dig up and moralize about the dark qualities of others. It is almost unnatural for us to look inward at this side of ourselves. But remember you are only half a human if you keep this buried. Be intrepid in this process.

Tessék, a puritán társadalmak átka: mindenki csak a nemiséggel foglalkozik.

We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized and to retain its Puritan underpinnings, in precisely equal proportions.

As if all that weren't enough, factor in the whole tedious millenial saga of female virtue, modesty, shame, repression, male ineptitude...in short, a cruel combo of anatomical inheritance and sexual inhibition for the gal set; a nature-culture one-two punch, right to the female pleasure principle.

That part of us that we trap in our dreams and deny in daylight hours.

To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.

I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away.