Suppression Quotes

• The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Ideas, Argument

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.429, Ballantine Books

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• Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Conflict, Natural, Resolution

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.71, Courier Dover Publications

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• Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Mother, Truth, Freedom

  "Liu Xiaobo: 'No Enemies, No Hatred,' Only Courage". Statement prepared for court, www.npr.org. February 16, 2012.

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• The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Ideas

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• Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.

  Neil McDonald

  Freedom, Loss, Government

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• Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Positive, Uplifting, Buddhist

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.180, Harmony

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• Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

  Saul Bellow

  Oppression, Accuracy, Ifs

  The Adventures of Augie March ch. 1 (1953)

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• A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lying, Exercise, Rights

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

  King Hussein I

  Justice, Way, Violence

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• Expression is never helped by suppression.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Expression, Feel Good

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• The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

  Alexander Berkman

  Evil, Liberty, Libertarian

  Alexander Berkman (2003). “What is Anarchism?”, p.234, AK Press

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• Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

  John Jay Chapman

  Happiness, Character, Emotion

  John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated

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• The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

  William O. Douglas

  Government, Practice, Freedom Of Speech

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• Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

  Gerrit Smith

  Men, Rights, Noble

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• My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

  Ma Jian

  Believe, Government, Ideas

  "Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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• It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

  James Bovard

  Administration, Favors, Conservative

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• Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

  Albert Camus

  Wisdom, Justice, Liberty

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.288, Vintage

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• We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

  Emanuel Celler

  Believe, Tactics, Communism

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Running, Country, Book

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• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Should Have, Spirit

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.256, Penguin

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• Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act.

  Joost de Blank

  Country, Communism, Christ

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• God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

  William Wilberforce

  Two, Morality, Slave

  "William Wilberforce". Book by William Hague, 2007.

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• The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.

  Wilhelm Reich

  War, Sadism, Essentials

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.

  Shakti Gawain

  Long, People, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.177, Mango Media Inc.

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• The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.

  John Carroll

  Objectivity, Analysis, Facts

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.65, Taylor & Francis

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