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Quotes About Suppression

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
~ Gerrit Smith
Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.
~ Roy Hattersley
You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.
~ Henry Rollins
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
~ Francis Bacon
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
~ John Milton
You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.
~ Cassandra Clare
The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.
~ Arianna Huffington
Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.
~ Jay Inslee
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.
~ Charles A. Reich
Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.
~ Edward Snowden
One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god.
~ Frederick Lenz
It was like that with Rosa now. He spent all of his time squelching his thoughts, tamping down his feelings. There was an ache in the hinge of his jaw.
~ Michael Chabon
he came to see there was nothing arbitrary or capricious about the Trump administration's attitude toward public data. Under each act of data suppression usually lay a narrow commercial motive: a gun lobbyist, a coal company, a poultry company.
~ Michael Lewis
Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.
~ Kristin Cashore
She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as a human being, potentialities which the mystique of feminine fulfillment ignores.
~ Betty Friedan
Hitler and Mussolini even went so far as to persecute Esperanto speakers.
~ Bill Bryson
The question is important because if fever is a defense mechanism, then any effort to suppress or eliminate it may be counterproductive. Allowing a fever to run its course (within limits, needless to say) could be the wisest thing. An increase of only a degree or so in body temperature has been shown to slow the replication rate of viruses by a factor of two hundred—an astonishing increase in self-defense from only a very modest rise in warmth.
~ Bill Bryson
High School is the place where poetry goes to die.
~ Billy Collins
Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance—Lakota
~ Sylvia Browne
What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
Laws of silence don't work.... When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....
~ Tennessee Williams
He makes me feel all jiggly inside. STOP FEELING. Stop caring.
~ Julie Anne Peters