Quotes About Suppression

We have learned to limit our emotions to such an extent that we won't let others in and we can't get out. We invest an inordinate amount of time and energy maintaining a façade, an image to hide behind.

You always suppress momentary anger at something you deeply and permanently hate.

If you're too damn stubborn to let yourself cry, then your body finds other ways to let it out.

That part of us that we trap in our dreams and deny in daylight hours.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

Censorship is the child of fear the father of ignorance and the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere.

The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away.

It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

You're sad but you hold everything back...

but good girls dont do that, dont make a fuss, dont upset parents. and i was a good girl so i curled up on the floor and sobbed silently instead

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.

Rome sees some bloke from the London School of Economics on the telly while he's flicking through the channels. This chap makes the point that governments don't actually do anything for us. The only thing that makes them boss is that they control all the currency. Historically, anyone proposing an alternative to cash is brutally suppressed, but then historically they haven't got the Internet, which makes such things much easier to set up; much harder to crack down on.

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

Since he'd been born rich into a family that had been a long time rich, he'd never known the need to suppress his feelings, so he pouted completely and might even have stamped his foot again, except he sensed that a kind of lumpish stillness might better illustrate the sulk he'd fallen into.

E' come se dentro me ci fosse una creatura incazzata che scalpita per uscire. Sono anni che mi cresce dentro e ormai occupa tutto lo spazio, mi preme sui polmoni, sul petto, sulla gola. Io faccio di tutto per ricacciarla indietro. Non voglio farla uscire. Non posso farla uscire". "Raccontami di un giorno perfetto

But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing.