Top 328 Repression Quotes & Sayings

Repression and intimidation are not - and never should be - the acceptable companions of reform.

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it legitimized patriarchal power in the culture at large. Here alone is enough reason to recover the Divine Feminine, for there is a real and undeniable connection between the repression of the feminine in our deity and the repression of women.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America in the past 12 years and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure.

Yes, fear and repression may be permanent citizens in Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

1819 was a year of hunger, mass unemployment, political repression and murderous, state-sanctioned violence.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

The seed of revolution is repression.

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

We're trying to challenge the gangs, not by repression, but by competing to get the young people to our side.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me that there is an integral relationship between faith and life at home. Evil is evil, repression is repression anywhere. And if it is not consistent with what one believes is God's will, then I would hope that one would be able to witness it, and there are wonderful people who do so in very great risks to themselves.

The machine of repression can only be started, it can't be stopped - even by Putin.

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

... fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.

I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.

When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

Repression is fantastic.

While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling is diminished. The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid. Suppression entails the development of chronic muscular tension in those areas of the body where the feeling would be experienced. In the case of sexual feeling, this tension is found in and about the abdomen and pelvis

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

I love 'The Master And Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is about repression in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

It's a shame - we've got so many hilarious women, and think there's a certain repression there.

My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

One of the things you can learn from a figure like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is that if you take all the resources of the state for yourself, you don't build much of a constituency and you have to rely on repression, and repression is difficult in the modern world.

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression.

Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

Let's face it: much of what we truly value in life is rooted in our experience of repression and conflict.