Quotes About Suppression

This dissent isn't going to suppress itself.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid of their power, or want to suppress them.

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?

A functioning police state needs no police.

Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only. Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

También en este caso, es una estupidez enfadarse con el síntoma y, absurdo, tratar de suprimirlo impidiendo su manifestación. Lo que debemos eliminar no es el síntoma, sino la causa. Por consiguiente, si queremos descubrir qué es lo que nos señala el síntoma, tenemos que apartar la mirada de él y buscar más allá.

To destroy an undesirable rate of mental vibration, put into operation the Principle of Polarity and concentrate upon the opposite pole to that which you desire to suppress. Kill out the undesirable by changing its polarity.

When there is no one to observe us, the other self we keep hidden inside can come out and do as it pleases. But when you have a father near enough to keep an eye on you, that second self remains buried within.

The first duty we owe a child is to teach him to fling out his inborn gladness and joy with the same freedom and abandon as the bobolink does when it makes the meadow joyous with its song. Suppression of the fun-loving nature of a child means the suppression of its mental and moral faculties. Joy will go out of the heart of a child after a while if he is continually suppressed.

suppressed kind. What I wanted to know (it was useless, and adolescent as well)

And the things you said, the walk from chapel to the schoolhouse, your backpack, tests, these were a bridge running above the rushing water of what you actually felt. The goal was: learn to ignore what's down below. Fine if you met someone else who was the same as you, but you had to realize that nothing another person could do would make you feel better about any of it.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

The physical sense of injustice is a dangerous feeling, once it is awakened. It must have outlet, or it eats away the one in whom it is aroused.

Then the individual, especially the personal man, is bourgeois: so he must be suppressed. You must submerge yourselves in the great thing, the Soviet-social thing. Even an organism is bourgeois: so the ideal must be mechanical. The only thing that is a unit, non-organic, composed of many different, and equally essential parts, is the machine. Each man a machine-part, and the driving power of the machine, hate… hate of the bourgeois. That, to me, is Bolshevism.

Away with the black man's ballot, by force or fraud

If I talked, I might cry.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

the worst evil which befalls our race is, that when we are wronged and plundered, all the world laughs around, and we are compelled to suppress our sense of injury, and to smile tamely, when we would revenge bravely.

Indeed, any effort is usually in denying our awareness and expression of it.