Quotes About Suppression

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

More than the disappearing trees and roses, it's the human tendency to suppress the 'Natural Voice' of the 'Nature's Man' which is sorrowful.

We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Censorship: It allows you not to think for yourself.

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

Oppression is the essence of power.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

the subversion of free speech and free thought are the worst forms of subversion.

Conscience was a devil that plagued the individual. Collectively, a people squashed it as easily as stepping on a daisy.

Whatever cracks were already there the war forced apart, and what we might otherwise have kept inside came spilling out.

She was artificially narrowing herself, amputating every humane and tender piece that didn't fit into a rigid frame.

Just 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.

Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one's thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.