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Quotes About Suppress

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
~ Fred Melamed
When a great truth gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it.
~ Colum McCann
When a great truth gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. She could see an orchestra in him, a whole range of instruments and sound. His voice was loud and booming. It is bound to go on until it becomes the thought of the world.
~ Colum McCann
settled on her shoulders like a heavy bag, and she wanted badly to blurt it out to her husband, to share some of its weight, but she pushed it away.
~ Celeste Ng
The official, standard history of rock 'n' roll is true, but it's not the whole truth. It's not the truth at all. It's a constructed story that has been disseminated so comprehensively that people believe it, but it's not true to their experience, and it may even deform or suppress their experience.
~ Greil Marcus
To repeat: we can tolerate existence only if we believe—in accord with a complex of illusions, a legerdemain of impenetrable deception—that we are not what we are. We are creatures with consciousness, but we must suppress that consciousness lest it break us with a sense of being in a universe without direction or foundation. In plain language, we cannot live with ourselves except as impostors.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
~ John Ridley
Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it.
~ Randy Gage
Most will tell you what they believe to be fact because it is much harder to conceal it. It takes effort to suppress the truth. It usually eats you up from the inside out if you try to contain it in silence. In the end you have to decide what truth resides best within you... even if your point of view does not agree with others.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.
~ William J. Clinton
Belief is like any other habit, the more you try to control and suppress it, the stronger it becomes.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
~ Unknown
It is largely up to the politicians which social forces they choose to liberate and which they choose to suppress, whether they rely on the good in each citizen or the bad. The former regime systematically mobilized the worst human qualities, like selfishness, envy, and hatred.
~ Vaclav Havel
can't hold my tongue.
~ Jaiendra Puri
As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.
~ Philip Pullman
People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.
~ Yi-Fu Tuan
since all men are sinful, they refuse to acknowledge this God that they know, but attempt to suppress the truth:
~ Unknown
holiness teaches him to inwardly condemn his sin and doing it in secret. It also teaches him to suppress sin in his family and to promote holiness in the world. He does so not by just talking about it, as a hypocrite or talkative person might do, but by practical application in faith and love to the power of the Word.
~ John Bunyan
Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.
~ Mark Batterson
The real power belongs to the people who control information,' he says, still staring at the ground. 'Individuals who can suppress stories, fix problems, spin news and plant false information
~ Michael Robotham
An attack is proof that one is out of control. Never run away from any kind of challenge, but do not try to suppress or control an opponent unnaturally
~ Morihei Ueshiba
To fully comprehend the term 'love', you have to imagine, to suppress the possible boundaries visible to a naked eye. Because love is - uncanny.
~ Unknown
I trembled all over. I might have guessed that someone would detect that I had deliberately missed the bar, but that Takeichi should have been the one came as a bolt from the blue. I felt as if I had seen the world before me burst in an instant into the raging flames of hell. It was all I could do to suppress a wild shriek of terror.
~ Osamu Dazai
Mors sagged back into her seat and swallowed hard. To her knowledge, an Imperial Star Destroyer had never before been destroyed. And now one had, above the planet she was administering, by a rebel movement that she was supposed to suppress.
~ Paul S. Kemp