Quotes About Suppression

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

she's never complained about her lot, or argued with him, a sure sign she's oppressed

Democracy is about one person, one vote. It's about all of us coming together to determine the future of our country. It is not about a handful of billionaires buying elections, or governors suppressing the vote by denying poor people or people of color the right to vote. Our job is to stand together to defeat the drift toward oligarchy and create a vibrant democracy.

The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Her head had turned away quickly as she stepped down, not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.

Život koji sam potiskivao u sebe stisnuo se u srce i stezao ga da ga zadavi.

It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill - he was an alcoholic - so there were a lot of things that built up for me. And because I was going to a Catholic school in a small German town, a lot of it was suppressed. I was angry and didn't know how to get it out.

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

I am not and I endure. An inexorable future stretches forth infinitely for this suppressed being. Hope turns in fear against time which drags it forward. All feelings gush out of themselves and come together, destroyed, abolished, in this feeling which molds me, makes me and unmakes me, causes me to feel, hideously, in a total absence of feeling, my reality in the shape of nothingness.

Thrice all that was fine and sweet in her had leapt forth, only to be scourged back into hiding. Poor heart inhibited!

Islamophobia,' the thought-crime that seeks to suppress legitimate criticism of Islam and demonise those who would tell the truth about Islamist aggression.

What keeps you awake at night? Demons.

The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.