Definition of Repressive

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Definition of Repressive
	Repressive Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures. Related Definitions: As, Having, Or, Power, Repress, Repressive, Tending, To

Repressive Quotations

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

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
Barney Frank

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Theodor Adorno

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
James Hillman

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
Johnny Rotten

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
Don DeLillo

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
Don DeLillo

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
Ahmed Ben Bella

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
Bianca Jagger

Repressive Translations

repressive in German is repressiv
repressive in Spanish is represivo

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