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• Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

  George Carlin

  Emotional, Hypocrisy, Comfort

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The big difference between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains. Victims repress because they are afraid to show the emotions, afraid to say what they want to say. To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Warrior, Differences, Want

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• In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

  Isabel Allende

  Strength, War, People

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• The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

  Thomas Szasz

  Religion, Ingredients, Categories

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1978). “The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression”, p.25, Syracuse University Press

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• He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension indicated repression and blocked the expression of affect. An example is the tight holding of the chest area as a sign of repressed feelings of need and longing.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Character, Expression, Feelings

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• Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Desire, Portrayal, Exaggerated

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• Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Struggle, Long

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.85, Metropolitan Books

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• Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

  Germaine Greer

  Invention, Bras, Ifs

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• Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

  Pope Francis

  Rights, Economic Inequality, Terrorism

  "Pope Francis: the humble pontiff with practical approach to poverty" by Mark Rice-Oxley, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

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• 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

  Organization, Racism, Political

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Names, People

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• Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Keys, Interesting, Secret

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.

  Suzy Kassem

  Truth Will Set You Free, Conscience

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• When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Jail, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.457, Jaico Publishing House

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• Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

  Lionel Blue

  Saws, Idolatry, Reefs

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• The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Moving, Psychosis

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• It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it is true that we are daily producing more evil and, with it, an ocean of suffering for millions that is absolutely avoidable. When one day the ignorance arising from childhood repression is eliminated and humanity has awakened, an end can be put to this production of evil.

  Alice Miller

  Ocean, Ignorance, Evil

  Alice Miller (2012). “Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries”, p.139, Anchor

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• Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

  Naomi Klein

  Oil, People, Shakes

  FaceBook post by Naomi Klein from Feb 23, 2011

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• As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Tactics, Violence

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.82, The New Press

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• In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, People, Atrocities

  "CNN Debate on "Terrorism" Chomsky v. Bennett". Debate with Paula Zahn, www.freerepublic.com. May 30, 2002.

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• What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, Pride, Thinking

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• The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.

  Paul Krassner

  Humor, Sarcasm, Views

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  Karl Abraham

  Able, Instinct, Assault

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.137, Karnac Books

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• It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Should Have, Racism, Prejudice

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• You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

  John Lennon

  School, People, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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