Quotes About Suppression

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...

When negative feelings are suppressed positive feelings become suppressed as well, and love dies.

It was a good memory, so he drove it down, crushed it. It only made things harder.

Today's mercantile society exploits the will to jouissance so as to repress it all the more.

He turned to face Murchaud, and bit his lip on the smile he wanted to taste.

Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.

The huntsman of the Libyan desert, the discerning art collector, the tolerant intellectual, disappeared, and in their place Hadrian emerged as a model of Roman power responding to perceived threat with absolute ruthlessness. Generosity became irresolution, tolerance turned into suppression, pragmatism into punitively enforced proscription.

People either didn't know how they felt about something or they chose never to say how they really felt about something.

Lenin did not care either way. Their time would come later; for now, his message had been broadcast loud and clear. No one, absolutely no one, would be allowed to stand in the way

La represión fue durísima: palo y tentetieso. Hubo pena de muerte para cualquier clase de actividad huelguista u opositora, se ilegalizaron los partidos y se prohibió toda actividad sindical, dejando

La represión fue durísima: palo y tentetieso. Hubo pena de muerte para cualquier clase de actividad huelguista u opositora, se ilegalizaron los partidos y se prohibió toda actividad sindical, dejando indefensos a obreros y campesinos.

Fascist governments do not permit revolutionary or progressive operation groups to exist, no matter how peaceful or nonviolent they are. It doesn't matter whether the fascist government simply outlawed the groups like in Nazi Germany or mounts a counterintelligence campaign to destroy opposition groups like in the U.S.

Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

Such is the tragedy of girls and women who by the strictures of their upbringing and culture cannot own up to their body's desires, even to themselves.

The rule of clerics is totalitarian. It means people can't choose. Humanity is varied, and we should celebrate that instead of suppressing it.

Fiecare valoare islamica ce mi se insuflase ma invatase ca eu sa fiu ultima in lista prioritatilor. Viata pe pamant este un test si, daca reusesti sa nu-ti acorzi importanta in viata asta, il servesti pe Allah; si astfel vei avea intaietate in viata de apoi. Cu cat iti suprimai mai mult dorintele, cu atat mai virtuos deveneai. Dar Johanna, Ellen si toti ceilalti din Olanda pareau sa creada ca era firesc sa-ti cauti fericirea pe pamant, aici si acum.

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

Religions tell us to get rid of these emotions, but we cannot. They are human emotions that we will feel whether we want to or not. Suppression does not work. George Stevenson invented the steam engine because he noticed that the steam in a boiling kettle lifted the lid. The force was irresistible. yoga is about channeling and transforming that energy to higher purposes, just as Stevenson used the energy of steam to drive locomotives.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again.

By the time we reach adulthood, many of us have learned to deny our feelings. We are no longer in touch with our emotional selves.

Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. [As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion , Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]