Quotes About Suppression

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Silence is the residue of fear.

I've been silenced in America.

North Korea had a random feeling to it; there seemed to be no pattern, no rhyme or reason to what aspects of Western culture—whether an icon like Michael Jordan or the detritus of the culture—might be allowed in.

My repressed feelings leak out —slowly – in the form of resentment – a continual leakage of resentment.

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

Dragon was controlling himself admirably but he had the look of a man who has found something unpleasant on his boot.

The man of method may channel all his spiritual currents towards productive ends, be relentless in his suppression of predilection and propensity, but when accident upsets the flow of his life, he finds himself drowning in a sea of tedium, hatred, and rage.

According to legend, after the suppression of the Knights Templar in 1312, surviving Templars went into hiding in Scotland where they eventually resurfaced as Freemasons. An "Unknown Master" received these Templar secrets and fashioned seven degrees linked to knightly titles.

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

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

Yey more and more there seemed a bevy of things she was not supposed to think about and by virtue of trying not to, she hardly thought of anything else.

Women were supposed to be seen and not heard.

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

She was swaying slightly from side to side, and he could see her shoulders rise and fall with each shuddering breath. He knew that sort of breath. It was the one you drew when you were trying so hard to keep your feelings inside, but you just weren't strong enough.

Alayc?l?k gerçek duygular?n yüzeye ç?kmas?n? engelleyen tek ÅŸeydir ve inan bana o duygularla yüzleÅŸmek istemezsin.

No, I'm not going to forget it, I've spent my life forgetting things, not saying them, never telling anyone what I really want.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

That always seemed like the whole thing; they'll let you have stories, but you can't ever think in a certain way. There are no spaces between the words, it's one of the charms of the place. Certain things don't have to be thought about carefully because you're always being pushed from behind. It's like a tunnel where there's no sky.

Concealment is the brother of censorship.

MADRE: Pues es loca de no haber gritado todo lo que mi pecho necesita. Tengo en mi pecho un grito siempre puesto de pie a quien tengo que castigar y meter entre los mantos.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Mosca felt something enormous swell within the knotted stomach that she hid behind her fists. It seemed it must surge out of her like a wild, black wave, sweeping away stalls and strollers alike and biting the plaster from the walls.