Quotes and Sayings about Repression
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
- W. E. B. Du Bois
(Related: Liberty, Repression)
"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
(Related: Policy, Repression, Support, Terrorism)
"As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression."
- Angela Davis
(Related: Alliance, Energy, Repression)
"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
(Related: Age, Power, Knowledge, Reason, Repression, Sexuality, Will)
"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
(Related: Faith, War, People, Defeat, Horror, Repression, Spain, Spirit, Years)
"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out."
- Abbie Hoffman
(Related: Men, Dignity, Repression)
"It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country."
- Samuel P. Huntington
(Related: Society, Country, Culture, Europe, Generations, Repression)
"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."
- George Jackson
(Related: Nation, Reading, Repression)
"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets."
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
(Related: Army, Injustice, Repression, Students)
"Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them."
- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
(Related: Faith, Equality, Liberty, Now, Public, Repression, Responsibility, Violence)
"It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage."
- Philip Kaufman
(Related: Time, Expression, Film, Now, Repression)
"There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit."
- John Lindsay
(Related: Business, Men, Power, People, America, Country, Dissent, Now, Quiet, Repression, Respect, Support, Voice)
"The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression."
- Leopoldo Lopez
(Related: Credibility, Repression)
"And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe."
- George Martin
(Related: War, People, Europe, Repression, Years)
"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."
- Alice Miller
(Related: Thought, Childhood, Confusion, Repression, Schools)
"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
(Related: End, Repression)
"So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression."
- Phillip Noyce
(Related: History, Opportunity, Questions, Repression)
"The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression."
- Ike Skelton
(Related: Government, American, Country, Debt, Fighting, Iraq, Repression)
"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
(Related: Army, First, Intellectuals, Newspapers, Repression, Writers)
"I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it."
- Allen Tate
(Related: Dreams, Poetry, May)
"Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world."
- William Allen White
(Related: Men, Force, Reason, Repression, World)
"Repression will provoke rebellion."
- Hugh Williamson
(Related: Rebellion, Repression, Will)
"The seed of revolution is repression."
- Woodrow Wilson
(Related: Revolution, Repression)