Repressed Quotes - Page 5

• America does not seek good for Islam, for the Muslims, and for the repressed.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  America, Islam, Doe

  "Lebanese Shiite Leader, Sheikh Fadhlallah: The CIA is Behind Terror Attacks in Iraq". www.memri.org. March 8, 2004.

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• Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

  Ben Whishaw

  Country, People, Today

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Differences, Essentials

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• [T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.

  Michel Foucault

  Simple, Thinking, Law

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.81, Vintage

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• How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.

  Sonny Rollins

  America, People, Humanity

  1958 Statement on sleeve of Freedom Suite.

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• Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fighting, Past, Asceticism

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• If I look at the really important questions in [Middle East] region, I see Iran, where there is a strong desire for a freer society and where people are repressed by a small group of ayatollahs. I see Syria, where we can see a similar desire of the people to be free. These two countries fund Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations and are hurting our efforts in Afghanistan and have been extremely harmful in Iraq. Then I also see large, important countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Strong, Hurt

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Fighting, Thinking, Perception

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• As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

  Cyril Connolly

  Life, Fear, Publishing Books

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 10

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• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, World, Sexuality

  Die Fackel, No. 315/16, January 26, 1911.

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• I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

  Jeremy Renner

  Character, Giving, Choices

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• I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

  Henry Rollins

  School, Fit, Young

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• Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Expression, Desire, Crime

  Decline and Fall pt. 3, ch. 1 (1928)

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• In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.123

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• i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

  Kathy Acker

  Limitless, Natural, Disaster

  Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, king of the pirates”

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• The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Law, Feet

  "Philosophy in the Bedroom". Book by Marquis de Sade. Chapter: "Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans", 1795.

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• Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.

  Kathy Reichs

  Reality, Parent, Understanding

  Kathy Reichs (2014). “Monday Mourning: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Keys, Wife, Suitcases

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• The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

  Connie Willis

  Moving, Impossible, Reason

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.174, Bantam

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• ...I have to tell you that I'm not all that comfortable with the idea of spending the rest of my life sleeping next to somebody who's got the power to fire me if my underwear doesn't make it all the way to the hamper." She repressed a smile. "I'm sympathetic to your problem, but I'm not selling the team just so you can be a slob." "Somehow I didn't expect you would.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Team, Sleep, Fire

  "It Had to Be You". Book by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, August 1, 1994.

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• I know not to trust anyone," i say. "Except..." Holly studies my face. "You do fancy him, don't you? What a strange, wonderful, repressed place this is.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hollies, Fancy, Faces

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.302, Scholastic UK

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• Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

  Peter Marshall

  Dream, Historical, Vision

  Peter Marshall (2009). “Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism”, p.15, PM Press

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• Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.

  Neil Strauss

  Alcohol, Want, Wanted

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.87, Canongate Books

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• To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Gay, Men, Play

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. November 15, 2011.

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• There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Scary, Intellectual

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