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Quotes About Suppression

I'm strangling her. She's not the one I want to eliminate. All this suppressing and holding her down, keeping her caged, perpetuating this fraud, this sham. I can't do it anymore." He shook his head. "I can't." He raised his chin and looked at me. "It won't go away. No matter how much I wish, or pray, she's always with me. She is me. I am her. I want to be her. I want to be Luna." "You
~ Julie Anne Peters
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.
~ Justice Robert H. Jackson
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
For bleeding inwards and shut vapours strangle soonest and oppress most.
~ Francis Bacon
The traditional Christian understanding of the inner self saw it as the site of original sin: we are full of evil desires that lead us to contravene God's law; external social rules, set by the Universal Church, lead us to suppress these desires.
~ Francis Fukuyama
callamos los volcanes florecidos!
~ Francisco de Quevedo
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.
~ Fred Allen
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
~ Frederick Douglass
No teenage girl is stable. Some are just better at hiding it than others.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The days, whether lapsing or lingering, were a stiff reality; the suppression of anxiety was a thin idea; the taste of life itself was the taste of suspense.
~ Henry James
The hope that we may one day awaken to a condition of life utterly different from that which we experience daily makes men willing victims of every form of tyranny and suppression. Man is stultified by hope and fear.
~ Henry Miller
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~ Henry Miller
They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.
~ Herman Melville
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
~ Damian Lewis
I learned at a young age that my voice was not wanted or heard, so I went silent. I did what I was told and set goals based on what everyone else expected of me.
~ Katelyn Ohashi
People ask me why it is that when I portray the 'angry young man' on screen, I really look angry. They reason that it is due to some suppression in my childhood. But, it's just that I can't help it; it's in my genes.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.
~ Frederick Douglass
Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?
~ Magda Gerber
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.
~ Charles Bukowski
News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
~ Katharine Graham
Escaping from a nightmare by awakening only suppresses your conscious awareness of the anxiety-provoking imagery.
~ Stephen LaBerge
My father was always suppressing the softer side of my nature; it seemed to have disappeared in the course of those boxing lessons, that's what boxing did to me. My father took away the real me and replaced all what I could have been by imposing his brutal regime of terror upon me.
~ Stephen Richards
Another key process in the cycle of suffering is experiential avoidance. It is an immediate consequence of fusing with mental instructions that encourage the suppression, control, or elimination of experiences expected to be distressing.
~ Steven C. Hayes
Under the authority of a language that had been carefully expurgated so that it was no longer directly named, sex was taken charge of, tracked down as it were, by a discourse that aimed to allow it no obscurity, no respite.
~ Michel Foucault