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Quotes About Suppressing

Liberals cannot win in the battle of ideas, so they resort to banning or suppressing ideas they don't like.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very 'gifted' improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Negroes cannot irrationally expect honorable Jews to curb the few who are rapacious; they have no means of disciplining or suppressing them. We can only expect them to share our disgust and disdain. Negroes cannot be expected to curb and eliminate the few who are anti-Semitic, because they are subject to no controls we can exercise. We can, however, oppose them, and we have in concrete ways.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our tactics must always reflect our goals. There is no such thing as killing for peace, strengthening people by making their decisions for them, or suppressing dissent to gain freedom.
~ Gloria Steinem
I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. Of course I don't when John is here, or anybody else, but when I am alone.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Responding to myth often means wearing blinkers. Myth is a complex game of production and reception that involves selecting some parts of a narrative and suppressing others. As we shall see later on, this process of communication is not always easily controlled.
~ Helen Morales
Looking at his horses," I said, putting a hand over my stomach in hopes of suppressing the resounding borborygmi occasioned by the sight of food.
~ Diana Gabaldon
These growth-suppressing relational dynamics ramp up the stress and defense systems—a brain pattern that
~ Unknown
Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
~ John Milton
There is the world of ideas and there is the world of practice; the French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed.
~ Matthew Arnold