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Quotes About Suppression

But we rarely see what we prefer to overlook.
~ Barry Eisler
Results showed that areas of the brain linked with emotion and empathy (the cingulate cortex and the amygdala) were less active during violent video gaming . . . These areas must be suppressed during violent video gaming, just as they would be in real life, in order to act violently without hesitation.
~ Stephen Singular
Knowledge is the first thing eradicated once power is attained. History has proven that over and over.
~ Steve Berry
In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.
~ Herta Muller
Forest fires burn out deadwood and return trapped elements to the soil. Sometimes, however, fires are suppressed, artificially. That does not stop the deadwood from accumulating. Sooner or later, a fire will start. When it does, it will burn so hot that everything will be destroyed—even the soil in which the forest grows.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Si no te revelas a los demás, no te puedes revelar a ti mismo. Esto no solo significa que estás suprimiendo a quien eres, aunque eso también. Significa que todas las cosas que podrías llegar a ser nunca podrán ser desencadenadas por la necesidad.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
When this does not happen, they don't speak up. They do not or cannot straightforwardly demand recognition. The dark side of their characters emerges, because of their subjugation, and they become resentful.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
In line with contemporary learning theory, emotional processing theory holds that new information does not replace old information in the fear structure but instead creates a competing memory that suppresses the old memory.75
~ Joseph LeDoux
Note the profound implications of this closed-system economic paradigm, for it necessitates that the Bilderberg and similar Groups must resort to active measures to suppress the scientific development of new theories and their allied technologies that would shift the world's energy supply — and hence the financial system — to a new basis, and a basis no longer needing to be reliant upon their own monopoly financial power to create the medium of exchange and credit.
~ Joseph P. Farrell
its first major weakness, for being committed rather unscientifically to such a closed system in which progress is to be shunned and suppressed, the Group shows that it is incapable of adaptability to changing circumstances that are not under its own control.
~ Joseph P. Farrell
What we all know is that Ireland is permeated with spies, ordinary and extraordinary, imported Englishmen and perverted Irishmen, in and out of uniform, in low places and high places....punishing first and foremost the great national crime of Republicanism, and in the second place real crimes artificially promoted by the regime––symptoms of a disease invariably arising from the forcible suppression of a national ideal.
~ Erskine Childers
ruling that tangible evidence may be used against a criminal defendant, even if the police learned of it only through an interrogation that was done in violation of Miranda. In United States v. Patane in 2004, the Court held that police failure to give a criminal suspect the required Miranda warnings does not require suppression of physical evidence learned as a result of the questioning.
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
Even these two luckier fragmentary translations, now surviving only as curios in a few libraries, attest the vehemence and concertedness of the effort to suppress this great gift of Sue's intellect to the human race. It will be thus no longer.
~ Eugène Sue
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
~ Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
~ Julie Taymor
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
~ Karl Kraus
We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
~ Salman Rushdie
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
~ Ang Lee
Repression is fantastic.
~ Courteney Cox
In the South, you can't say you're hurting. You can't cry, so you lash out.
~ Shea Whigham
We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
~ Queen Latifah
For a long time, the Indonesian government ignored 'The Act of Killing,' hoping it would go away.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
~ Jeremy Bentham