Top 278 Suppressed Quotes & Sayings

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed

What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

I feel sorry that whenever anybody raises his voice in the AAP in Punjab's interest, it is suppressed.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Wherever people are suppressed, revolution always begins.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it to death. The moment that I heard that Meahri was leaving, I thought the world was ending because at that moment, I was full of regret. I was avoiding, not thinking, and pretending it wasn't what my heart was hoping for earlier. I'm sorry, because I've made Meahri cry so many times. I'll do well. I'll take care of her forever. Tae-sang, this is my first and last request of you. Just this once, forgive me.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

This generation is frightened of ideas, or at least it's being suppressed.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

When there is spirit and light, the dark forces of whatever is hidden and suppressed - like hatred and separation - become more powerful.

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

I was suppressed for many years. From the outside, you'd think I had a very normal life.

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.

I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile.

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.

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.

When you practice Dynamic Meditation for the first time this will be difficult, because we have suppressed the body so much that a suppressed pattern of life has become natural to us. It is not natural! Look at a child: he plays with his body in quite a different way. If he is crying, he is crying intensely. The cry of a child is a beautiful thing to hear, but the cry of an adult is ugly. Even in anger a child is beautiful; he has a total intensity. But when an adult is angry he is ugly; he is not total. And any type of intensity is beautiful.

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts It surges, adding ever to its strength.

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.

When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.