Suppression Quotes - Page 5

• India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wall, Mind, India

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• What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same effect whether the suppressor be a reformer or an outlaw. The only protection against misguided zeal is constant alertness to infractions of the guarantees of liberty contained in our Constitution. Each surrender of liberty to the demands of the moment makes easier another, larger surrender. . .

  William O. Douglas

  Liberty, Doe, Guarantees

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• I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Diversity, Culture

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• Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Speech, Serious, Injury

  Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 1927.

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• Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Thinking, Medicine, Needs

  "The Sapphires". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com.

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• Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Interest, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

  Akbar Ganji

  Issues, Ideas, Justice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Female, Reputation, Century

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• In March [1972] the unity of Pakistan depended on the suppression of the secessionists. But to carry it out with such brutality on the people instead of on those responsible wasn't necessary. That's not the way to convince poor people who've been told that with the Six Points there'll be no more hurricanes, no more floods, no more hunger. I spoke out against such methods more emphatically than anyone else, and when no one dared do so.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  People, Unity, Way

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the most underreported stories.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Thinking, Rights, Voting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show that the suppression of debate about Palestine and about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement - within many academic circles - does seek to establish those who would address such issues in speech as already collaborating with "terrorist" regimes, although now only Hamas is officially terrorist according to the US government and its allies.

  Judith Butler

  Government, Circles, Issues

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• There's a ripple effect in being underpaid for women. Ten thousand women are turned down every day for domestic abuse shelters. Part of domestic abuse is often economic suppression; the male might take your paycheck every week and never give you money or allow you to work because he's too jealous.

  Patricia Arquette

  Jealous, Giving, Abuse

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Kids, Issues

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why so many people responded to Donald Trump's demagoguery.

  Riane Eisler

  People, News, Voters

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for centuries, by the Mughals, the Russians, their own people, so they have always had to fight for freedom... we cannot take away the context. But they legitimised it by using jihad, a religious sanction, so they could be seen as mujahids, fighting for Allah. And you cannot say there is nothing concrete.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Religious, Fighting, Gun

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Revolution, Impossible, Violent

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• The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

  Dov Davidoff

  Society, Together, Woven

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 13, 2012

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• I'm against suppression of pornography. If you suppress guns - yes; if you want to suppress poverty - yes. These are the obscenities, the real brutalization of people. I am almost more outraged by ads for blue jeans or cars that sort of blatantly depict women not only as sex objects, but women that look younger than the age of consent, looking like they've just been raped or asking to be raped-utterly passive sex objects.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Real, Gun

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• We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Men

  "A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin". Book edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg, "Tomorrow" (1919), 1970.

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• The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Women, Machines, Exposed

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Issues, Humanity

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• Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

  Henry James

  Art, Self, Ideas

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.13602, Delphi Classics

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• The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.

  Naomi Wolf

  Party, People, Tea

  "God Crashes the Tea Party" by Naomi Wolf, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

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• The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

  Merlin Stone

  Rights, Rite, Women's Rights

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• Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

  David Halberstam

  Fear, Brave, Secret

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