Definition of Repression

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Definition of Repression
	Repression The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers. That which represses; check; restraint. Related Definitions: Act, And, As, Being, Check, Evil, Of, Or, Repression, Restraint, State, That, The, Which

Repression Quotations

The seed of revolution is repression.
Woodrow Wilson

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois

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

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

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
Angela Davis

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
Antonio Tabucchi

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
Samuel P. Huntington

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Lionel Blue

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

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