Quotes About Repression

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

Women in Tamil Nadu are repressed. This must change.

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

Repression and intimidation are not - and never should be - the acceptable companions of reform.

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

The love of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is reliant on the restrictions of Regency culture, their passion is created by repression.

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

Let's face it: much of what we truly value in life is rooted in our experience of repression and conflict.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

At the moment of greatest love, there is greatest fear, and at the moment of enormous repression, there is resistance, and therefore a chance at revolutionary change.

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.

It's a shame - we've got so many hilarious women, and think there's a certain repression there.