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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

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. — Pope Francis

Convention is a jealous god and, like Saturn, eats its babies. — Marty Rubin

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed. — Michele Cassou

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

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

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression. — Wendy Kopp

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man. — Criss Jami

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

Human intelligence is nothing but the stupidity acquired through repression. — Georg Groddeck

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

Advocating sexual repression as a solution to violence against women ends up mobilizing women around their fears rather than their visions. — Alice Echols

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

If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the love of a roomful of total strangers. — Matt Roper

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

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

Help! Help! I'm being repressed! — Terry Gilliam

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect. — Mahatma Gandhi

When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people. — Mahatma Gandhi

That's Catholicism for you. A perpetual war between repression and excess. — Joanne Harris

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 behavior
is 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

When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge. — Kate Morton

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it. — B.G. Bowers

If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty. — Lao-Tzu

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see. — Criss Jami

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

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 sometimes a precious gift our minds offer us when faced with trauma. — Andrea Clemens

Repression is fantastic. — Courteney Cox

Far more perversions arise from repression than from expression — Brandi Lynn Ryder

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. — Bobby Sands

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it! — Michel Gondry

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression. — Dick Feagler

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

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home. — Jared Diamond

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

Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence. — B.G. Bowers

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

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'. — Suzy Kassem

Thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution. — Nellie L. McClung

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression. — Tony Blair

Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the yarn twisted around women's wrists. — Sue Monk Kidd

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

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about. — Ang Lee

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 Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it. — Salman Rushdie

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

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky

The seed of revolution is repression. — Woodrow Wilson

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud