Quotes About Suppression

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

In Romania, during the communist regime, we were very culturally suppressed. At 18 years old, I wasn't allowed to wear bell-bottom jeans and eyeliner. I couldn't understand why!

I was suppressed for many years. From the outside, you'd think I had a very normal life.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.

Girls have been suppressed for long. Crimes against women are on the rise because women have the courage to come out in the open and fight the perpetrators of these heinous crimes.

I feel sorry that whenever anybody raises his voice in the AAP in Punjab's interest, it is suppressed.

I feel I like portraying women-centric roles, since I can express pent-up frustrations and suppressed feelings lying deep inside a female soul.

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

I'm a medevac pilot. I have spent time suppressing wildfires and things like that. And as a combat pilot, I tend to find the biggest bucket of water I can find and put it on the biggest fire I can find, right?

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so I went back to some of the music I grew up with, like music from South Africa and the '80s stuff. I stopped suppressing it, and I stopped trying to be cool.

Oil companies have played a role in suppressing the development of alternative fuels.

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.