Quotes About Repression

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

Our repressed desires are the desires we had, unrepressed, in childhood; and they are sexual desires

It is thus a general law of the ego not strong enough to die, and therefore not strong enough to live, that its consciousness of both its own inner world and the external world is sealed with the sign of negation;13 and through negation life and death are diluted to the point that we can bear them. "The result is a kind of intellectual acceptance of what is repressed, though in all essentials the repression persists.

Negation is the primal act of repression; but it at the same time liberates the mind to think about the repressed under the general condition that it is denied and thus remains essentially repressed.

If psychoanalysis is right, virtually the totality of what anthropologists call culture consists of sublimations.

The death instinct is reconciled with the life instinct only in a life which is not repressed, which leaves no "unlived lines" in the human body, the death instinct then being affirmed in a body which is willing to die.

My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.

Tears that but form gems on sleeves must come, I think, from an insincere heart, for mine, though I seek to repress them, gush forth in torrents.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

There's plenty of repressive communist regimes left over from the cold war, but there's plenty out there that don't really regulate their enterprise.

Aconteça o que acontecer, continuaremos sendo uma pequena dor de cabeça sempre que cheguemos até esta Assembléia ou a qualquer outra, porque estamos dispostos a chamar as coisas pelos seus devidos nomes e a dizer que os representantes dos Estados Unidos são os agentes da repressão no mundo inteiro.

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.

If the parent represses the girl's anger not just once but over and over again, a deeper injury occurs: the girl will eventually dismantle her anger response. Ultimately, it's safer for her to cut off a part of her being than to battle the person on whom her life depends.

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

A man makes himself hard and inflexible in order to escape his guiltiness. The strange paradox present on every page of the Gospels and which we can verify any day, is that it is not guilt which is the obstacle to grace, as moralism supposes. On the contrary, it is the repression of guilt, self-justification, genuine self-righteousness and smugness which is the obstacle.

He is exiled in a school where to often his capacity for constructive growth and self realization is repressed.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Queremos transformar o mundo e somos incapazes de nos transformar a nós próprios. Queremos ser livres, fazemos a nossa vontade, e a todo o momento arranjamos desculpas para reprimir os nossos desejos

Do I really agree with this thought, or have I been pressured into believing it? How do I want to respond to this feeling – distract myself from it, repress it, express it or just feel it until it changes into something else?

repression of one end of the emotional continuum often leads to a repression of the whole continuum, and the person becomes emotionally deadened.

If, however, we suppress or repress our feelings, our bodies typically armor and tighten, especially along the alimentary canal.

In his last incarnation, Collin sees only one position for himself: to serve the power that weighs on us all. He proposes to replace Bibi-Lupin as head of the Sûreté. "I have no other ambition than to be an instrument of law and repression instead of corruption. . . . I am the general of the underworld and I surrender.

Don't worry. The chaps train for civil disobedience suppression. We'll crack a few heads, chuck some of the would-be revolutionaries in jail, and the rest will slink off back to their hovels and drink themselves stupid all night. And if worse comes to worst, well, we've got all the guns, haven't we?

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.