Quotes About Suppression

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

Muscle, had goggled him and muzzled him— goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.

I lock all my scaredness down in my stomach until the fear hardens into something I hardly notice. I myself harden into a person that I hardly notice.

The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.

I'm so tired of being here, suppressed by all my childish fears.

Almost everyone has an inborn need to create; in most people this is thwarted and forgotten, and the drive is pushed into other activities that are less threatening, less difficult, and less rewarding. In some people, that need to create is transmuted into the need to destroy.

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.

denne tilbageholdte kraft, der var lagt i lænker og havde fået mundkurv på, og som hele tiden lå og murrede inde i mig som et uvejr, var den bedste næring for tingen.

Alle de ting eksisterede ikke, eftersom man ikke havde lov til at bruge de ord, der betegnede dem. De var allesammen uden værdi. De kunne allesammen til nød være latterlige, altså genstande for hånlige og ligegyldige morsomheder.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.