Quotes About Suppression

Were not the autonomy of the individual the secret longing of many people it would scarcely be able to survive the collective suppression either morally or spiritually.

By confining our activity to a single sphere we have handed ourselves over to a master who is not infrequently to end up by suppressing the rest of our capacities. While in one place a luxuriant imagination ravages the hard-earned fruits of the intellect, in another the spirit of abstraction stifles the fire at which the heart might have warmed itself and the fancy been enkindled.

There were many causes of his unhappiness, but at heart I believe now, as I believed then, that it was essentially the result of growing up in a household, and a world, where emotional expression of any kind was at best frowned on and at worst strangled.

Assassination: the extreme form of censorship.

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

There was a sort of grey dripping figure that kept trying to rise up in my mind and which I ruthlessly violently banished.

Sin embargo, debido a la censura de los últimos años, ponían parches negros sobre los senos desnudos y empleaban eufemismos para designar conceptos prohibidos, como aborto, culo y libertad.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

For some people, every word out of Trump's mouth is 'hate speech' that they have tried to stamp out for four years. Twitter's suppression of the president's tweets was the culmination of those efforts.

People forget what they want to forget.

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...

Stuff your feelings because feelings buried alive don't die. And that fear or that upset or that anger or that whatever it is, it'll turn into something inside of you. So you want to get it out.

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.

I will pretend I do not have those feelings and eventually they will die from neglect.

The first recorded instance of book burning was in 213 BC, when Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang decided to incinerate any history books that contradicted his version of the past. In addition, he buried more than four hundred scholars alive.

judicial bonfires, and even household stoves." The first recorded instance of book burning was in 213 BC, when Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang decided to incinerate any history books that contradicted his version of the past. In addition, he buried more than four hundred scholars alive.

The bravado, the resentment in the writing excites them, but they cannot allow themselves to feel it.

In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.

I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.