Quotes About Repression

Drama mea:sunt un violent pornit pe calea intelepciunii,un violent care se emasculeaza,care-si reprima toate pornirile.Care-i adevarata mea natura,care-mi sunt poftele? Sa trag palme,sa-i scuip pe oameni in fata,sa racnesc,sa-mi tarasc victimile pe jos,sa le calc in picioare,sa urlu,sa ma zvarcolesc. Mi-am impus exercitiul intelepciunii ca sa-mi reprim furia,iar furia mea se razbuna de cate ori poate. Cine n-a cunoscut furii teribile nu stie nimic despre sinucidere,care e un fenomen de turbare.

While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.

When little girls ask too many questions their tongues drop off!

In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident, or those who have in some way made their peace with the world and their destiny within it, do not need to expend effort censoring or otherwise controlling their thoughts.

Our societies are changing. It is no longer an atmosphere of repression that weighs upon us, that haunts our streets and our minds. It is the glossy, efficiency-minded atmosphere which is knocking the wind out of us. Literally, euphoria, dumping and acceleration are absorbing all the oxygen from the atmosphere and leaving us like washed-up fish. It is no longer light we are short of, nor cash, but air.

How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as a politician, should I be banned from expressing political opinions? Why, as a student of history, can I not present the facts as I see them, without fear of reprisal?

Defending human rights should be an important objective of foreign policy, and that, too, will sometimes be hard to reconcile with an economic agenda, especially when it comes to dealing with rich but repressive players like China and Russia.

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

The danger that lies in the repression of the imagination may be well illustrated from the play of Macbeth. The imagination of the hero (in him a powerful faculty), representing how the deed would appear to others, and so representing its true nature to himself, was his great impediment on the path to crime.

Never seeking true or high things, caring only for appearances, and, therefore, for inventions, he had left his imagination all undeveloped, and when it represented his own inner condition to him, had repressed it until it was nearly destroyed, and what remained of it was set on fire of hell.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.

Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.

Si quieres hacerte una idea de cómo será el futuro, figúrate una bota aplastando un rostro humano... incesantemente.

Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments and vaporisations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.

In un regime la memoria è colpa.

they'll shoot me i don't care they'll shoot me in the back of the neck i don't care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i don't care down with big brother

A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone.

toiled day in, day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. There was a certain fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier.

Dans 1984, le système est déjà bien mis en place, la dictature absolue fonctionne sans accrocs et pénètre jusque dans l'esprit des individus, le chef est devenu une entité abstraite et lointaine qui n'est plus présente que par ses icônes, la dictature s'exerce par le biais d'une police omniprésente qui passe son temps à récrire l'histoire et à traquer les moindres miettes de pensée libre.

We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.

Because I have not spoken, do not imagine that I have not felt!' said Miss Morville. 'I had no right to speak, but I have very often burned to do so!

When someone doesn't acknowledge the miraculous conditions of the cosmos, and instead attributes all the systemization and orderliness that we observe all to thermal energy, as if we should expect energy has some innate potential to create orderliness, it stinks of a kind of repression of the profound for no other reason than to avoid the philosophical implications.