Quotes About Suppression

What people don't understand they just push away to the far corners of their minds and eventually it fades away and gets forgotten. 'Cause it's safer that way.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

The way we censor in America is the dollar. That's who censors.

We can't let censorship take over.

I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.

Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

Meeting the body's micronutrient needs helps to suppress food cravings, and high-nutrient foods do not produce dangerous, addictive craving.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at all because it meant becoming someone else.

I suppress stress to the point where it will force its way through my skin in the form of a large angry pimple because that's the only channel it has.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

I don't think a man should try to suppress a woman just because he's married to her.

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.

As time goes on, we suppress our dreams, which really makes me sad.

In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we all are. Because that conflicts with their identity as good people, they suppress it and are even more in denial about it. They are even more likely to erupt in defensiveness if it gets called out.

Will Beijing really send out the army to suppress our protests? Never say never.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.