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• The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

  Ike Skelton

  Country, Fighting, Government

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• One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.

  Hakim Bey

  Expression, People, Justice

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• I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the sun comes out and the ice melts, you find that there was a lot of life underneath all along.

  Aung San

  Thinking, Ice, Majority

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• It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

  Hazel Henderson

  Country, Slave Labor, Burning

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• Without question, purity is beautiful. We're not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your dignity and worth.

  Jason Evert

  Beautiful, Talking, Prudishness

  Jason Evert, Crystalina Evert (2011). “How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women”, p.126, Totus Tuus Press

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• Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.

  Kaz Cooke

  Children, Thinking, Support

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• I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

  Allen Tate

  Dream, Three, May

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Responsibility, Equality, Liberty

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• So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

  Phillip Noyce

  Opportunity, Volcanoes, Stories

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• The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

  Arthur Miller

  Opportunity, Class, Long

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.297, Penguin

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• Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Struggle, Ukraine

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• The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Ideas, America, Long

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• The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.

  Louis Althusser

  Struggle, Class, Division Of Labor

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• The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Self, Police

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• I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Thinking, Society

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Country, Government, Views

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• Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Stupid, Fighting, Evil

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Writing, Play, Tyrants

  "Les misérables".

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• We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

  Joan Didion

  Fate, Men, Escaping

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 24, 2011

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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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• Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

  Michel Gondry

  Pops, More Money, Music Is

  "Surreal To Reel" By Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Acceptance, Personality, Liberty

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.74, Beacon Press

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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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• See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Women, Hatred

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• Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.

  Lewis Mumford

  Dream, Art, Expression

  "Interpretations and Forecasts 1922-1972" by Lewis Mumford, (p. 399), 1973.

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