Quotes About Suppression

I don't think it serves anyone to bottle emotions.

I bury things in the back of my mind I don't really want to deal with.

Lovers, if Angels could understand them, might utter strange things in the midnight air. For it seems that everything's trying to hide us. Look, the trees exist; the houses we live in still stand where they were. We only pass everything by like a transposition of air. And all combines to suppress us, partly as shame, perhaps, and partly as inexpressible hope.

If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.

The Scriptures categorically state that the problem with such people is not the absence of evidence; it is, rather, the suppression of it. The message of Jesus Christ shifts the charge of insufficiency from the volume of evidence to the intent of one's will.

Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.

Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.

nip most of them in the bud

O]nly a few perceived the intellectual holocaust and the revolution by burial that Stalin achieved.

Los intentos descarados de suprimir a algunos votantes y el fraude electoral desbocado, el sabotaje a la democracia, constituyen a su vez un caso aparte en la Administración actual. No es que estas cosas no se hicieran en el pasado —por desgracia, son casi inherentes a la tradición estadounidense—, sino que nunca se habían hecho de manera tan implacable, con tanta precisión y tan flagrantemente.

In Communist countries they take writers very seriously—so seriously that they often kill them.

One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him too deeply.

On the way home Mary Lou said, Some things are so sad you can't say them. But I pretended not to hear.

In real life, as I mentioned in the first chapter, people don't try to have feelings, and frequently they try not to have them.

I prefer to hide unsettling things and let them build into life-scarring neuroses.

The current anticrime debate takes place within a reified mathematical realm - a strategy reminiscent of Malthus's notion of the geometrical increase in population and the arithmetical increase in food sources, thus the inevitability of poverty and the means of suppressing it: war, disease, famine, and natural disasters.

Ironically, the heteronormative vision of a unitary racial identity that would suppress sexual difference among African Americans does not exorcise the specter of white supremacy from the body of black America, but rather reincorporates white racism's phobic conceptions of black sexuality in the denigrated figure of the colored homosexual.

To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress...Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

and then I scream loud enough to wake the dead... but it doesn't.

Apartment houses, public transportation, and schools tell us something about the technical development of a society. They do not tell us whether the members of that society are suppressed subjects or free workers, whether they are rational or irrational men and women.

Ça??m?zdaki genel eziyetçi y?k?c?l?k do?al sevisel ya?ama vurulan amans?z ketlerin sonucudur.

People get sick from ''not wanting to see''.

The suppression of doubt contributes to overconfidence in a group where only supporters of the decision have a voice.

suppression of doubt contributes to overconfidence in a group where only supporters of the decision have a voice. The main virtue of the premortem is that it legitimizes doubts.