Repression
The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.
That which represses; check; restraint.
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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 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
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Lionel Blue
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
William Allen White
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
Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
Martha Gellhorn
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
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