Top 376 Suppress Quotes & Sayings

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.

If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

I hate to do anything that is going to stop or suppress free speech.

You can't suppress Bodily Functions

I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutalization of people. I am almost more outraged by ads for blue jeans or cars that sort of blatantly depict women not only as sex objects, but women that look younger than the age of consent, looking like they've just been raped or asking to be raped-utterly passive sex objects.

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings.

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.

When we are angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase away ourselves. When anger is born, we can be aware that anger is an energy in us, and we can change that energy into another kind of energy. If we want to transform it, first we have to know how to accept it.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

Republican governors trying to suppress the vote.

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever it is, close to 50 languages. There was an attempt to suppress the writer. And I'm happy to say the writer wasn't suppressed.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

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

I am a foodie and do not suppress the needs of my body.

People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.

Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

When emotions arise, I don't attempt to suppress or repress them, so that I can discern their basis or cause.

A relationship should not suppress our adventure or suppress the speed with which we learn the lessons that are there for us to learn.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.