Repression Quotes

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would cha...

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen a...

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the opp...

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "g...

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fea...

[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are ...

It is not only negative feelings that become blocked. The repression extends to more and more of his...

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

As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had n...

You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. M...

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal s...

Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, w...

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

In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I wa...

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at ob...

...ideas are definitely unstable, they not only CAN be misused, they invite misuse--and the better t...

The hide was being flayed off the still living body of the Revolution so that a new age could slip i...

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing t...

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the f...

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relati...

Regulation of sexual behavioris the preferred route to wider socialcontrol.

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

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

Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing mor...

Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and bet...

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cog...