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Quotes About Suppression

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without a violent revolution.
~ Unknown
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
~ Vladimir Putin
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.
~ James Harvey Robinson
He was supposed to get through dinner not thinking about the only things he could think about. He was supposed to do this forever.
~ Philip Roth
As a self-imposed challenge, repressive puritanism is fine with me, but it is Titoism, Drenka, inhuman Titoism, when it seeks to impose its norms on others by self-righteously suppressing the satanic side of sex.
~ Philip Roth
Hitler Almanyas?'nda özel bir tutum yayg?nd?: Bilen konuÅŸmuyor, bilmeyen sormuyor ve soru sorana yan?t verilmiyordu.
~ Primo Levi
An extreme case of the distortion of the memory of a committed guilty act is found in its suppression. Here, too, the borderline between good and bad faith can be vague; behind the I don't know and I do not remember that one hears in courtrooms there is sometimes the precise intent to lie, but at other times it is a fossilized lie, rigidified in a formula.
~ Primo Levi
All the bargaining-transactions outlined above are based on the smuggling of materials belonging to the Lager. This is why the SS are so eager to suppress them: the very gold of our teeth is their property, as sooner or later, torn from the mouths of the living or the dead, it ends up in their hands. So it is natural that they should take care that the gold does not leave the camp.
~ Primo Levi
The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they'll never dare to raise a hand again.
~ Rachel Caine
The Great Library may have once been a boon, but what is it today? What does it give us? It suppresses! It stifles! You, sir, do you own a book? No, sir, not a blank, filled only with what they want you to read...a real book, an original work, in the hand of the writer? The library owns our memories, yet you cannot own your own books! Why? Why do they fear it? Why do they fear to allow you the choice?
~ Rachel Caine
It was unnerving. She'd looked at him and had the uncontrollable urge to weep. Thus far she'd managed to control her emotions. Thank God. She didn't even want to imagine what he would think of her if she started weeping for absolutely no reason.
~ Debbie Macomber
There was a certain comfort in denial. This fragile peace with her consciousness had to be maintained at all costs. Ignored and buried.
~ Debbie Macomber
A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him.
~ DH Lawrence
he knew damned well that he was really the son of— He choked that thought off, shoving it violently to the back of his mind. "Son of" had brought Lord John vividly to mind, though.
~ Diana Gabaldon
There are also many natural talents that are suppressed because their exercise would conflict with prevailing
~ Unknown
In Japan censorship is practiced not only by the government when it tampers with textbooks but by the media, which police themselves.
~ Iris Chang
And sometimes somebody is laughing--and that laugh is stuffing all of yesterday's and today's anger back into the mouth that it's oozing from.
~ Unknown
It breaks my heart to think of childhood, everybody bigger and whacking and shouting and teaching you not to reach for anything or look at anything, and not letting up on you till you get over wanting to.
~ Unknown
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do,' Arkadian Porpirych says. 'What statistic allows one to identify the nations where literature enjoys true consideration better than the sums appropriated for controlling it and suppressing it? Where it is the object of such attentions, literature gains an extraordinary authority, inconceivable in countries where it is allowed to vegetate as an innocuous pastime, without risks.
~ Italo Calvino
What statistic allows one to identify the nations where literature enjoys true consideration better than the sums appropriated for controlling it and suppressing it? Where it is the object of such attentions, literature gains an extraordinary authority, inconceivable in countries where it is allowed to vegetate as an innocuous pastime, without risks.
~ Italo Calvino
Empathy is not only a personal feeling; it can be a potent force for political and social change. And thus the suppression or denial of empathy is a deliberate part of a cynical political calculus. Dividing people and stoking animosity can pave a path to power (and in many recent elections, it has). This has been well known since the time of the ancients. But these divisions inevitably come at the expense of the long-term health and welfare of the nation as a whole.
~ Dan Rather
Recently we have seen a level of public protest unlike anything we have witnessed in decades. Dissent is about marching, and making one's voice heard in the streets and at the ballot box. But at the same time, there are strong voices calling this dissent unpatriotic and dangerous. We cannot let the forces of suppression win. America works best when new thoughts can emerge to compete, and thrive, in a marketplace of ideas.
~ Dan Rather
To suppress the vote is to make a mockery of democracy. And those who do so are essentially acknowledging that their policies are unpopular. If you can't convince a majority of voters that your ideas are worthy, you try to limit the pool of voters.
~ Dan Rather
But the expression that just past over her face said it all. Anita was trying to forget something dreadful, something that just kept on pushing itself to the surface of her mind no matter what she did.
~ Unknown