Quotes About Repression

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

What it was really about was people not having sex when they wanted it. A lot of British comedy was about that, Barbara had noticed.

From the point of view of the Chinese Communist Party, the greatest casualties of the Cultural Revolution were the Party's prestige and its ability to govern.

Israelis like to believe, and tell the world, that they were running an "enlightened" or "benign" occupation, qualitatively different from other military occupations the world had seen. The truth was radically different. Like all occupations, Israel's was founded on brute force, repression and fear, collaboration and treachery, beatings and torture chambers, and daily intimidation, humiliation, and manipulation.

there is a crucial difference between a one-state solution and a binational state. In general, nation-states have been imposed with substantial violence and repression for one reason—because they seek to force varied and complex populations into a single mold.

From Ferguson to Athens, via Mexico, it is clear that many governments are reproducing the tools that Israel uses to repress and oppress the Palestinians. The replication of those same tactics, methods, and often weapons serves as proof that the Palestinians are now used as guinea pigs for experimentation.

People are called intellectuals because they're privileged. It's not because they're smart or they know a lot. There are plenty of people who know more and are smarter but aren't intellectuals because they don't have the privilege. The people called intellectuals are privileged. They have resources and opportunities, and enough freedom has been won so that they state does not have an unrestrained capacity to repress

Repression isn't the answer. I know that. It's one of the things that punish the body for what's closed up in the mind. It's always so much easier to analyze someone else, always much harder to see things when it's yourself.

It's always what may not be shown that shows the most. Forbidden words are always the most eloquent.

Cuando la fe se atrofia, parece como que se deforma o desfigura. ¿Acaso no hemos visto también en el terreno cultural, es decir, no sólo a escala individual sino social, cómo la fe reprimida degenera en superstición?

could barely contain his

Ohlmeyer saw communism for the sham that it was—a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion

that any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Yet he too obsessed me for years. Until I wrote it out, I would find my lips moving; I would be arguing with him; raging against him; saying to myself all that I never said to him. How deep they drove themselves into me, the things it was impossible to say aloud.

He was drowned, he used to say, and lying on a cliff with gulls screaming over him. He would look over the edge of the sofa down into the sea. Or he was hearing music… But "Lovely!" he used to cry and the tears would run down his cheeks, which was to her the most dreadful thing of all, to see a man like Septimus, who had fought, who was brave, crying. And he would lie listening until suddenly he would cry that he was falling down, down into the flames!

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

Because Western religion has created this image of the 'God of Good in Whom there is no Darkness,' a grand enantiodromia is occurring around the globe. The 'Light' has been overemphasized in religion, and they have sentenced its opposite characteristic to the dungeon of society's collective unconscious. Sometimes the repressed characteristic bursts forth wildly into daylight with a lethal force. We are witnessing this enantiodromia enacted daily as we watch the Evening News.

British Society during the time of Crowley's life was repressed, inhibited, homophobic, arrogant, and thoroughly kept in check. Along came Aleister Crowley, a giant of an intellectual, a man who challenged all 'established' morals. In a similar manner, Crowley was very much like another antinomian Oscar Wilde.

Because Western religion has created this image of the 'God of Good in Whom there is no Darkness,' a grand enantiodrama is occurring around the globe. The 'Light' has been overemphasized in religion, and they have sentenced its opposite characteristic to the dungeon of society's collective unconscious. Sometimes the repressed characteristic bursts forth wildly into daylight with lethal force.

Because Western religion has created this image of the 'God of Good in Whom there is no Darkness,' a grand enantiodrama is occurring around the globe. The 'Light' has been overemphasized in religion, and they have sentenced its opposite characteristic to the dungeon of society's collective unconscious. Sometimes the repressed characteristic bursts forth wildly into daylight with a lethal force.

Another problem with repressing bad feelings is that you thereby shut off the good feelings too! When you block yourself from pain, you block yourself from pleasure.

Behind anger, is hidden the cemetery. (Derrière la colère, - Se cache le cimetière.)

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend," observed the Marquis, "will keep the dogs obedient to the whip,

La represión es la única filosofía de efectos duraderos. La gran deferencia del miedo y de la esclavitud, amigo —dijo el marqués,— conservará a los perros obedientes al látigo mientras este techo —añadió mirando al techo— nos proteja del cielo.