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Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars.
— Marty Rubin
Sexual repression is conduct unbecoming a Celt." I shrugged. "Better that than having to deal with guilt ferrets.
— Kevin Hearne
Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.
— Victor Serge
The Bog Kingdom. Bidding him enter! Ah, enter! There, all wishes are fulfilled. The more forbidden, the more delicious.
— Joyce Carol Oates
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
— Frank Herbert
The book was an instrument of both repression and liberation
— Anders Rydell
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.
— Murray Levin
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.
— Michele Cassou
One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.
— Michael Parenti
In capitalist America economic repression of the masses is institutionalised to a point which not even Lenin could have foreseen . . . "The
— John Le Carre
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
— Rabih Alameddine
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
— William Allen White
Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.
— Bryant McGill
It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.
— Frances Hesselbein
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.
— D.H. Lawrence
She looked as if she were about to burst into tears, but she was wonderful at catching the ball of her own mood in mid-air.
— Rebecca West
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.
— Herbert Marcuse
You smell like tequila and sexual repression, Caroline.
— Alice Clayton
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
— Isabel Allende
Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.
— Carl R. Rogers
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
— Terry Gilliam
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
— Germaine Greer
Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?
— John Cheever
Repression was the favored food of heresy.
— Greg Keyes
Power tends to get confused with repression.
— Olivia Wilde
Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape.
— Vimala McClure
He had hardly ever allowed himself the things that really gave him pleasure. Tradition and obligation had tyrannized over all his hours.
— Millicent Bell
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
I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
— C. K. Williams
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition.
— Bertrand Russell
We suffer from a repression of the sublime.
— Roberto Assagioli
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
— Karl Abraham
Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.
— Hilary Mantel
We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Regulation of sexual behavioris the preferred route to wider social
control. — Alexander Cockburn
Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.
— Paul Rust
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.
— Jerome A. Miller
During the twentieth century, communist governments killed some 100 million of their own people in peacetime, either by repression or by famine.
— Charles Wheelan
Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist
— Philippe Lejeune
It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Repression is fantastic.
— Courteney Cox
Far more perversions arise from repression than from expression
— Brandi Lynn Ryder
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
— Michel Gondry
I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.
— Cora Carmack
Repression may begin as a means to an end, but it always ends up being an end unto itself
— Garry Kasparov
The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.
— John Lennon
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.
— Thomas Szasz
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Just as solidarity had an underside of repression, so liberalization had an underside of chaos;
— Yuval Levin
Thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
— Nellie L. McClung
As is often the case with religion, repression only led to expansion, and the rebellion continued still.
— Damien P.
Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.
— George Carlin
Telling the willow not to weep only makes it weep more.
— Marty Rubin
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
— Robert M. Hutchins
There is too much repression and suppression in schools.
— Fanny Jackson Coppin
I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness
— Johnny Rich
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
— Lionel Blue
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
— John Steinbeck
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.
— Naomi Klein
What we work so hard to avoid is the shattering of our lives by horrors we know we will be helpless to control.
— Jerome A. Miller
To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The seed of revolution is repression.
— Woodrow Wilson
