Quotes About Repression

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

If you scream, you're marked "insane." But silence is a place in which to scream!

Luego de la represión del movimiento estudiantil de 1968, un sentimiento de agravio levantó sombras de ilegitimidad y amagos de violencia sobre la solidez, de apariencia monolítica, del régimen. La crisis económica de 1982, que significó la quiebra de las finanzas públicas, erosionó seriamente el acuerdo de la sociedad con los gobiernos priistas y, por tanto, con la legitimidad de su pacto sucesorio.

We dislike matter, that is ourselves, because we are destined to matter, because anonymous matter is called death. Perhaps it isn't matter we dislike, perhaps it's anonymity. The anonymity to which we are destined - the loss of name - is what we repress at any price.

What I cannot accept in myself, what I cannot handle in the complexity of the world, what I fear in you, often leads me to repress you if I can.

We have to recall the functional definition of the Shadow as that which renders us uncomfortable in confronting in ourselves.

Think of what the word means literally, to de-press, to press down. What is "pressed down"? Life's energy, life's intentionality is thwarted, denied, violated… Life is warring against life….

How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen.

If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.

As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.

There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it.

It's funny, but after you break up a family, no matter how dysfunctional, you start repressing the bad memories. But then something comes along to remind you all over again.

Social theorists may be considered as belonging to the Zuni-like culture of scholars. Such cultures select persons who have repressed their emotions in the service of intellectual goals and develop norms and procedures which maintain the dominance of intellect over feeling. Scholarly theories of the human experience which exclude emotions are both product and causes of repression.

Contemplative prayer starts modestly, but as soon as it begins to reach a certain intensity, it opens us to the unconscious. Painful memories that we have forgotten or repressed begin to come to consciousness. Primitive emotions that we felt as children and that we have been compensating for may come to consciousness.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

All of North Korea is a jail.

China is a heaven compared to North Korea.

If I get angry, it's obvious. I don't have to say much.