Quotes About Repression

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

Un esclavo es aquel que no puede expresar su pensamiento.

Before my unfeeling eyes, the repressed bitterness of my whole life peels off the suit of natural joy it wears in the prolonged randomness of every day. I realize that I'm always sad, however happy or content I may often feel. And the part of me that realizes this stands a little behind me...

Quien nunca ha vivido oprimido no siente la libertad.

No el amor, sino los alrededores es lo que vale la pena... La represión del amor ilumina sus fenómenos con mucha más claridad que la misma experiencia.

The repression of love sheds much more light on its nature than does the actual experience of it. Virginity can be a key to profound understanding.

Emotions fascinate me, just being able to express myself through acting. I love that. And I think, in everyday life, you're always trying to repress your emotions. Like if you're sad, you don't want to show it to someone else.

The idea of wanting to do something that's completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating.

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

I grew up in Mexico City at a time when the country was a repressive one-party dictatorship almost wholly dependent on oil revenues.

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.

Good analysts and therapists can help us to recognize parts of ourselves we have repressed and denied. The shamanic concept of soul loss reaches further. It recognizes that soul healing is also about retrieving pieces of soul that have literally gone missing and need to be located and persuaded to return and take up residence in the body where they belong.

The electrical forces turned the key that unlocked the repressed genes.

Many existential thinkers hypothesize that the fear of death is greater in people who do not live up to their potential than in those who fulfill themselves (Yalom, 1980). This thesis leads to the conclusion that therapeutic interventions which free patients from their repressions, so that they will be better able to actualize themselves, will also reduce their fears about dying.

It is both the intention and the capability (love-food) that is necessary to sustain a small person in growth toward maturity. Parental mistreatment, that is, the absence of parental love, causes the child psychic pain. These traumatic episodes are later partially or totally repressed, but the scars of these early wounds play a significant part in the everyday life

Honestly, I tried not to think about my sister much. Or my mother. I have been guilty of doing what it takes to bury most of my memories when it comes to that- from junk food to booze to drugs, there are few poisons with which I haven't experimented. I've found a million ways to keep the demons in a comfortable, quiet stupor, lazing around on my inner couches.

Didn't the secret police know the exact aroma and chemical composition of every subversive fart in Greece?

The ancient Irish social system was systematically attacked, traditional songs and music forbidden, whole clans exterminated, and the remainder brutalized. A "wild Irish" reservation was even attempted. The