“ The captain repressed a smile. Mr. Burgess' pride in the fact that the news of his good fortune had been put in the newspapers was so very evident. ”
- Joseph C. Lincoln- Copy
- 420
“ The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
- 815
“ The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
- 823
“ The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 2.3K
“ One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses. ”
- Robin Wood- Copy
- 200
“ Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
- 1.6K
“ By starving emotions, we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped. By repressing them, we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou. Encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. ”
- Joseph Collins- Copy
- 1.8K
“ As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. ”
- Dr. Joyce Brothers- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
- 3K
“ Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality… ”
- Stephen R. Covey- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader. ”
- Terry Eagleton- Copy
- 2K
“ A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 183
“ A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel — until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There are people who in private ask us to respect the confidentiality of their donations, and we do, because we understand the fear they have of being repressed, just as I was when I began in politics. Important businesspeople often lose the vision of the wonderful opportunities this country offers if we achieve a true democracy-they prefer short-term benefits… ”
- Vicente Fox- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact. ”
- Judy Davis- Copy
- 3K
“ Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered… ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
- 976
“ Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed… ”
- Freya Madeline Stark- Copy
- 1.2K
“ How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime. ”
- Henry George- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures and rides it, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route. ”
- Tom Robbins- Copy
- 2.1K
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