Quotes About Suppression

They shut me up in Prose – As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet – Because they liked me still – Still! Could themself have peeped – And seen my Brain – go round – They might as wise have lodged a Bird For Treason – in the Pound –

he would simply have to repress the emotions he was experiencing. Very unhealthy, psychologically speaking

Freedom is not attained through the satisfaction of desires, but through the suppression of desires.

Whence come these unreasonable hatreds, and why their unifying effect? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

The witch is not dead; she is merely hibernating. And witch-hunting itself is hardly dead; it is merely waiting to be born again under a different name.

En chacun de nous existe un Mr Hyde; le tout est d'empêcher que les conditions d'émergence du monstre ne soient rassemblées.

When our children were old enough to communicate, I would try to talk them out of their negative feelings—or convince them there was no foundation for them. But what I found out is that suppressing feelings has the same fate as trying to suppress a beachball in the ocean—they both come out sideways.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

I don't want to give voice to my problems, for fear of rousing them, making them pounce.

You see, my conscious mind is really quite good at squashing down any unwanted thought and burying it under the rug. But my unconscious mind, my dreaming mind, well, that's where the trouble is.

During those snowy New England winters, besides learning to rise at five to study calculus and trudge two miles through the drifts for breakfast down the road, he had suppressed some tremendous element in himself that took form in a prudish virginity. While his life was impeccable on the surface, he felt he was behind glass: moving through the world in a separate compartment, touching no one else.

One of the most welcome aspects of office work is that you do not need to be fully yourself.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

One knows something is important when the powers that be choose not to acknowledge it in public.

It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

My ability to be emotive and cry... I think I'm so fearful of tapping that that I won't know how to turn it off.

The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.

Keeping love buried was a lot like keeping anger pent up, I'd learned.

Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.

Attempting to suppress emotions is dysfunctional; it does not work. Emotions are energy: E-motion = energy in motion. It is supposed to be in motion, it was meant to flow.

I waive the quantum o' the sin,The hazard of concealing:But, och! it hardens a' within,And petrifies the feeling!

Its platform, subsequently published abroad, was suppressed inside Russia. Its efforts to arouse worker support by clandestinely distributing such materials as the text of Lenin's testament and by organizing street demonstrations in Moscow and Leningrad on November 7, 1927, the tenth anniversary of the Revolution, were foiled by the authorities.