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.
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.
As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.
As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.
I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.
However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.
I suppress stress to the point where it will force its way through my skin in the form of a large angry pimple because that's the only channel it has.
Meeting the body's micronutrient needs helps to suppress food cravings, and high-nutrient foods do not produce dangerous, addictive craving.
The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.
Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they
suppress it.
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.
The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.
We're not going to allow the temporary foreign worker program to suppress wages for New Brunswickers.
If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.
I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.
When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.
A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
I think black women feel an obligatory pressure to be stronger than everybody else, not necessarily to suppress the pain.
You will definitely find moments where somebody else is going to try to suppress you or put you down, but you have a choice in how you see yourself.
AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.
I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.
When we look at countries that suppress women's rights, I think that they are missing the point. Women have so much to offer.
The record in the Federal Court discloses that (the NCI) took sides and sought in every way to hinder, suppress and restrict...(a) treatment of cancer.
If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order."
- John V. Lindsay
"No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.
The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.
As time goes on, we suppress our dreams, which really makes me sad.
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.
Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.
Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.
Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements
Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.
I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.
I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.
I don't think a man should try to suppress a woman just because he's married to her.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it.
Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt.
When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at all because it meant becoming someone else.
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