Quotes About Suppression

So how do the people resist unjust authority, which, we all agree, they must and should do and have done in the past? The best solution anyone has come up with is to say that violent revolutions can be avoided (and therefore, violent mobs legitimately suppressed) if 'the people' are understood to have the right to challenge the laws through nonviolent civil disobedience.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

You have inner emotional turmoil because you are suppressing who you really are and submitting, through fear, to another's design; and/or you are seething with anger and resentment with people who won't live their lives as you believe they should.

We all have things we cannot deal with," he said. In the end you just look away and pretend they're not happening." - Johannes Forsell

I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.

I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

The [Bernie] Sanders campaign said you might be suppressing the vote by doing this 'cause people in those states might decide to stay home, that their vote doesn't count.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

Art degraded, Imagination denied.