Quotes About Repression

The repressions of the passionate drive them mad.

Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.

Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath it I secrete a maelstrom of impassioned feeling and a mausoleum of blighted hopes.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.

Somos oprimidos por un silencio que nos ahoga y queremos romper.

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

In Texas, the rangers were established on an ad hoc basis in the 1820s to protect the settlers making inroads into Spanish borderlands. Soon, Mexicans and Mexican Americans replaced Native Americans as the prime target of ranger repression.

NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

centroamericanos. Pero como el dichoso Estado de bienestar no llega, las causas que impulsan la migración siguen operando. La solución: reprimir y detener con la fuerza militar los flujos migratorios extranjeros. Éste fue el resultado de la consigna que proclama que la mejor política exterior es la interior. Y si la política interior es mala, tendremos la peor política exterior

Nevertheless, after Sobell's confession of guilt, all other conspiracy theories about the Rosenberg case should come to an end. A pillar of the left-wing culture of grievance has been finally shattered. The Rosenbergs were actual and dangerous Soviet spies. It is time the ranks of the left acknowledge that the United States had (and has) real enemies and that finding and prosecuting them is not evidence of repression.

Consciousness - what we call our identitty- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and desire which we have to repress into our unconscious in order to conform to the demands of culture.

Consciousness - what we call our identity- is always unstable, always at risk of sabotage from the unacceptable feelings of loss and desire which we have to repress into our unconscious in order to conform to the demands of culture.

Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail.

The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

I paint as the mood takes me- it is an emotional release. But in this society moods and images can incriminate you. Writing is much safer for me. I can hide myself behind a maze of words and the details of people's lives.

If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

The homosexuals wrote as if they were women. The timid ones wrote about orgies. The frigid ones about frenzied fulfill-ments. The most poetic ones indulged in pure bestiality and the purest ones in perversions. We were haunted by the marvelous tales we could not tell. We sat around, imagined this old man, talked of how much we hated him, because he would not allow us to make a fusion of sexuality and feeling, sensuality and emotion.

he words we did not shout, the tears unshed, the curse we swallowed, the phrase we shortened, the love we killed, turned into magnetic iron ore, into tourmaline, into pyrite agate, blood congealed into cinnabar, blood calcinated, leadened into galena, oxidized, aluminized, sulphated, calcinated, the mineral glow of dead meteors and exhausted suns in the forest of dead trees and dead desires.

Créeme, cuando hablo de vivir de acuerdo con los instintos, no es más que humo. Hay muchos instintos que deben ser reprimidos porque están descompuestos, podridos.