Quotes About Repression

The elephant in the room. It can't be talked about. It can't be ignored.

Your Christ, the Church's Christ, is a god made in the image of effete men who've never had a good fuck in their lives, or if they have, who've thrashed themselves with whips to relieve their guilt. They hate their own cocks so much they'd light votive candles to make them fall off, if it would do the trick.

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.

Os homens não podem dispor de uma capacidade para o prazer para que ela seja depreciada, proibida e reprimida.

Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily. For seventy-five years, from 1885 to 1960, Congo's population had marinated in humiliation. No malevolent witch-doctor could have devised a better preparation for the coming of a second Great Dictator.

We bury what we don't want to know. And sometimes it comes out in odd ways

And another had a very unhealthy love of clown porn. But I've tried to block that out.

civilization is built on the repression of individual desires

As Freud and many others before and after him have noted, civilization is built on the repression of individual desires.

la civilización se construye sobre la represión de los deseos individuales.

I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.

Emperors uphold censorship, But extreme repression leads to extreme reaction. Individualists believe in freedom, But extreme expression leads to extreme reaction.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

Victoria made a violent sound of protest. "I am not repressed!" Seht pinched her nipple and watched her resulting shiver. "You have never been spanked or ass-f**ked. I would say that's pretty damned repressed." "Bastard!

?çindeki ?air hiçbir zaman ölmemi? ama [...] onu, kendinden yap?lma bir hapishanede kilit alt?na alm??t?.

Many nations are free by name, but they are still living under tyranny.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Of course, we're made up of what we've forgotten too, what we've tried to bury or suppress.

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

Anger, real red-hot anger, was not okay for females. Most learned to repress it so successfully that they didn't even know it was there till it erupted full-blown. It was one of the many things that made dealing with women more challenging than dealing with men. Women's anger went from zero to sixty in sixty seconds—no warning signs, no time to get out of the way.

A year as an inmate in Kam?t? has taught me what should have been obvious: that the prison system is a repressive weapon in the hands of a ruling minority to ensure maximum security for its class dictatorship over the rest of the population, and it is not a monopoly exclusive to England and South Africa.

There also needs to be a clean break with totalitarianism: both totalitarian regimes abroad and the totalitarian left – if it is still a left – at home. It is incredible that this point needs to be reiterated after the twentieth century; astonishing that we need to go through all that again.

Cybergothic is [...] guided by schizoanalysis in marking actuality as primary repression or collapsed potential

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.