Quotes About Suppression

The details of the CCP's anti-Uighur campaign are heartbreaking, but they reflect the Marxist-Leninist disdain for individual human beings. Whenever Chinese people dare defy the party by asserting their individual humanity, they stop being useful to the state and become a problem to solve the only way the CCP knows how: suppression and coercion.

It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

Feeling. I didn't want to feel.

Deze Koude Oorlog, deze gestolde hysterie met haar wapenwedloop, haar spionagecultuur, haar wederzijdse voorspelbare propaganda, en alle gigantische kosten die dat met zich meebracht… Wat was daar uiteindelijk de tol van? En de zin? Hoeveel levens waren evengoed verwoest, hoeveel dromen onderdrukt, hoeveel landen op de rand van het bankroet gebracht?

It was important not to show any emotion. But I felt hollow, like if you blew across my lips I would sound a note, deep and low.

But belief resides within the shadow of doubt. It only functions effectively in direct proportion to the suppression of the doubt that it seeks to override.

COMPLETE AMNESTY TO THOSE IN POWER, GOVERNMENTS AND LEADERS WHO HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSING THE TRUTH. THEY CAN'T BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY PAST WRONG DEEDS. IT IS THE ONLY WAY THESE LEADERS CAN COME FORWARD WITH THE TRUTH. IT IS NECESSARY THAT YOU DO THIS IN ORDER TO WORK TOGETHER AND SURVIVE.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

John exposes Pax Romana and Pax Augusta to be bald-faced lies. He does not allow his hearers to ignore the fact that a great deal of violence has gone into creating and sustaining empire, for example, in the brutal suppression of the Jewish Revolt. How is it truly a matter of "peace" if you use overwhelming force to subdue a country that never wished to be a part of your empire in the first place?

people sometimes use teamwork as an excuse for suppressing dissenting opinions.

Remember that self-discipline is not self-suppression. Suppression is when you resist and fight against your desires, keeping them as buried and unexpressed as possible. Self-discipline is when your highest desires rule your lesser desires, not through resistance, but through loving action grounded in understanding and compassion.

But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.

the iron determination with which we must carry out Hitler's orders could only be obtained by a stifling of all human emotions.

Sentì svegliarsi dentro di sè l'oscuro desiderio di mandare in pezzi la sua compostezza, ma subito lo represse.

kill not only men, but ideas.

this furtive childhood, this concealed degradation is ready to explode your systems sooner or later.

Oy, stil – tiranlar?n aleti!

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.

bowdlerized, censored, suppressed and maybe even burned by the public hangman. But people who believe in this diabolical power of words and/or ideas and/or images

Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

People with power always take advantage of those without power.