Repression Quotes

The seed of revolution is repression. (Woodrow Wilson)
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. View quote
Pope Francis
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. View quote
Lawrence Wright
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. View quote
Bobby Sands
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species. View quote
Don DeLillo
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. View quote
Toni Morrison
We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying. View quote
Susan Sontag
I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details. View quote
Joseph Beuys
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad. (Camille Paglia)
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. View quote
John Steinbeck
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals. View quote
Lewis Mumford
The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them. View quote
Che Guevara
One mechanism of repression is the grand jury. View quote
Michael Parenti
You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder. View quote
Barack Obama
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish. View quote
Frank Herbert
... any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people. (Vince Flynn)
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim. View quote
Carlos Eire
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. View quote
Karl Abraham
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. View quote
George Jackson
The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression. View quote
Ike Skelton