Repression Quotes - Page 5

• The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.

  Holly Sklar

  Dream, People, Wealth

  Holly Sklar (1980). “Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management”, p.44, South End Press

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• The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Desire, Landscape, Exotic

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

  Michele Cassou

  Energy, Veils, Painting

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• The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Patriotic, Rights, Insightful

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81), 2004.

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• I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Able, Courageous, States

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• The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Military, Breathing, Punishment

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• I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Thinking, Suffering, Enjoy

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• But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

  Sigmund Freud

  Cutting, Ego, Resistance

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ideas, Analysis, Resistance

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.

  Gene Sharp

  Military, Mean, Power

  "The Politics of Nonviolent Action". Book by Gene Sharp, 1973.

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• Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.

  Richard Sennett

  Men, Saws, Dignity

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• Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

  Hugh Hefner

  Reality, Historical, Playboy

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when you exclude questions of race from that discourse, something disappears that's really central to the forms of repression that we're talking about.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Race, Talking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk about white supremacy, not to talk about its legacy, from slavery to lynching to mass incarceration, and what it has developed into.

  Henry Giroux

  Lynching, White, Legacy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression, from terrorism, to live as human beings freely in this free world. That is what I am looking for. I am not asking for the moon. I am asking for the United Nations legality to be implemented.

  Yasser Arafat

  Moon, Being Free, Generations

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile countries, in these places of crisis, there isn't the psychosocial support. There aren't counseling services. It's not in a lot of cultures to explicitly talk about things that maybe have happened to the body. So, repression of emotion, and shame, and guilt is something that really needs to be handled in humanitarian crises.

  Natalie Dormer

  Girl, Country, Support

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.

  Vijay Prashad

  Attitude, People, Police

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• [As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.

  Sam Branson

  Jail, People, Alcohol

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• Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

  Paul Rust

  Growing Up, Catholic, Three

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop us from supporting sanctions. It has to be the other way around: dialogue first, then we stop our call for sanctions, because sanctions make people understand that you cannot exercise repression and at the same time expect international support.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Exercise, Thinking, People

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• As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Example, Easy, Form

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• One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

  Michael Parenti

  Political, Jury, Mechanism

  Michael Parenti (1998). “America Besieged”, p.114, City Lights Books

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• Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Real, Army, Bullets

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• I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.

  Oscar Romero

  Country, Lying, Roots

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