Top 233 Suppression Quotes & Sayings

I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.

Sadly, voter suppression is not a thing of the past.

Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Voter suppression takes different forms.

Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned. Henceforth divinity was to be exclusively masculine. The suppression of women was directly linked to the suppression of the goddess.

Voter suppression is at the very core of the Trump re-election strategy.

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of homosexuals, fatwas, honor killings, suicide bombings, arranged marriages to minors, human sacrifice, burning witches, and systematic sex with children, I have a few little quibbles. And I forgot blowing up girl schools in Afghanistan.

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

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

One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

There is a middle path between indulgence and suppression, but the culture has overwhelmed that in the cacophony that has been created in the modern world and the commercial encouragement of avoidance and indulgence on the one hand, or suppression and "just do it," treating yourself as an object on the other. We've got to find a way that's more compassionate, softer, that allows us to move forward towards the kind of lives that we really want to live.

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.

We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

Expression is never helped by suppression.

The Republican playbook is voter suppression.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.

Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.

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

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

Let's be clear: Voter suppression is real.

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

Transcendence of sex is a totally different phenomenon from the suppression of it. But suppression can give you the feeling that you have transcended.

Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

There is too much repression and suppression in schools.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.