Repression Quotes

Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked.

Technology is neutral. But the process of technology will cause a free world to become ever freer, and a totalitarian world to become ever more repressive.

Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.

In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words.

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars.

Repression is dangerous. It makes anvils of memories and drops them from impossible heights when you least expect it.

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?

When we operate on the basis of the will to control, we are aware of only one kind of "evil": the failure of existence to conform to the plan we have for it.

Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.

What we work so hard to avoid is the shattering of our lives by horrors we know we will be helpless to control.

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

All lived lives of dignity and repression.