“ We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
- 2K
“ People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have. ”
- Brian Friel- Copy
- 159
“ It was about repression and a whole lot of things. They're both gays, but one chooses to be more adventurous. The other has to go through self-denial and only accepts it when it's too late, when he missed him. That is true. Eventually we surpass the obstacles, and it's really a search for that obscure object of love. ”
- Ang Lee- Copy
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“ Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you — you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
- 581
“ The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 704
“ The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. ”
- W. E. B. Du Bois- Copy
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“ What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
- 471
“ I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy. Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions. ”
- Eric Clapton- Copy
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“ It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP of a developing country by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place. ”
- Hazel Henderson- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Toni Morrison- Copy
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“ The price of liberty is less than the price of repression. ”
- W.E.B. Du Bois- Copy
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“ Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world. ”
- William Allen White- Copy
- 66
“ Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought… ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ My parents must have had tough decisions to make, but I was never called on to bear witness to their anxiety. To some people that might sound like repression, but I think repression can be a positive value. ”
- Tom Wolfe- Copy
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“ The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
- 647
“ The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
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