Quotes About Repression

Marxism is not about free speech and debate, it is about domination, repression, indoctrination, conformity, and compliance. The

From our schools and entertainment, to the media and government, we are witnessing the onslaught of repressive actions, including threats, censorship, and character assassination, and the demand for more of it. Marx would approve.

First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world?

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

Some people have censored so much of themselves for so long that they forget what it is they do feel and think.

If you let it be known that you are a poet, you will be sent to the police station.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Look, just because I'm an angry, repressed, Irish-Catholic feminist doesn't mean I hate everything. I only hate youth, beauty, the human body, nature, technological change, popular culture, and democracy. Oh, and I forgot to mention sex. And sports. And Andy Warhol. But other than that, I'm cool with whatever the kids are into. Really!

Back when we were kids, the experts thought kids were protected if they couldn't access their most damaging memories. But now they know suppressed memories can cause all kinds of problems as an adult- anxiety, depression, PTSD, amnesia...

Russians suspected of liberal tendencies were watched, and upon the slightest pretext sent to Siberia,

De súbito sintió el intenso flujo de energía que se desata cuando los instintos reprimidos son sancionados por una causa. Abajo Hamlet, arriba Antonio. «Sobre tus heridas yo profetizo».

The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been taken from them, and how.

Elle porte de grosse chaussures tristes - des sandales de nonne -, idéales pour écraser les rêves.

Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.

Trató de imaginarse cómo habría sido aceptarse a sí misma completamente. Todos los errores que habían quedado en su cuerpo. Todos los sueños que no había cumplido y todos los dolores que había sentido. Todos los deseos y anhelos reprimidos

As an advent of the impersonal, repression is a universal phenomenon.

What is required by the facts which Freud describes under the name of repression, complex, regression or resistance is only the possibility of a fragmented life of consciousness which does not possess a unique significance at all times.

When and where there is repression, what a woman does when she gets dressed in the morning may be considered political. Wearing or not wearing a veil, disobeying laws that prohibit transgender dressing, or wearing a large Afro in an institution that seeks to diminish the formation of racial alliances are all actions that can serve as challenges to domination

I guess I feel like grief is this huge part of everything," I say in a burst. "But you're supposed to act like it's not.

Sometimes the things we want to say the most are the things that should never be said.

Maybe we didn't want to know. Couldn't let ourselves know.

Any behavior we resort to in order to avoid feeling what we are really feeling in any given moment is an addiction.

Not all influences of colonialism were necessarily bad. Along with enslavement, subjugation, exploitation, loss of cultural heritage, and repression, colonists also brought modern scientific methods in fields such as medicine and agriculture. Note that this can be no apologia for colonialism, because these advances could have been gained without the societies' becoming colonised, as in Japan.