Suppressing Quotes

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Ovid

Grief, Grieving, Rage

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We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear, Running Away, Living In Fear

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book, House, Atheism

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.

Chris Hani

Love, Inspirational, Country

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Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

LeCrae

Hurt, Pain, Bullets

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Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness, Mistake, Lying

"Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage". Book by Marianne Williamson, pp. 131-132, 2013.

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Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

Leonard Orr

Boredom, Effort, Negative

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Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if they can-economic growth and employment through the dubious means of suppressing interest rates and printing money. The nice thing about gold is that you can't print it.

James Grant

Money, Nice, Mean

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American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil.

James Madison

Country, Mean, Law

James Madison, Robert Allen Rutland (1996). “The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series”

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One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.

Robin Meade

Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Expectations

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By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Octavio Paz

Civilization, Differences, Progress

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... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.

Percy Williams Bridgman

Science, Bully, Ruffian

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He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the christian king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce...

Thomas Jefferson

Christian, Kings, War

Thomas Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence, founders.archives.gov. June 11 – July 4, 1776.

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Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.

Enya

Music, Mirrors, Needs

"Everyone Thinks I'm So Shockable". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 24, 2005.

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Suppressing his relief, Valek asked, “Can you please tell this Lieutenant who he has arrested?” “Can do,” Janco said with a smile. “Lieutenant Darren, let me be the first to congratulate you on capturing the elusive and legendary Kelav. He’s been wanted in Ixia for years on multiple counts of espionage.

Maria V. Snyder

Years, Relief, Firsts

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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Crush, Thinking, Ideas

Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.74, Hachette UK

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A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

L. Ron Hubbard

Rights, Deny, Critical

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What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love, Inspirational, Life

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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

Vachel Lindsay

Crush, Ideas

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All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

Bryant H. McGill

True Identity, Identity, Discomfort

"Why You Aren’t Who You’re Supposed to Be" by Matthew B. James, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2014.

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When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

Andrew Shue

Hurt, Pain, Anger

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As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

Evgeny Morozov

Smart, Technology, Risk

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We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

Maria Montessori

Religious, Sweet, Children

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You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

W. Somerset Maugham

Mean, Long, Razors

W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.305, Random House

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There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.

Nhat Hanh

Beautiful, Fighting, Walking Meditation

Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “The Art of Power”, p.19, Harper Collins

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