#repress

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#case #first #foreign #intellectuals #invasion

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#first time #how #learn #repress #says

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have. ↗

— Kate Millett

#behavior #code #ever #given #having

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#been #being #could #damn #feared

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

— Germaine Greer

#bras #invention #just #ludicrous #make

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#capacity #chinese #chinese government #come #contrary

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

#bread #come #denied #equality #faith

[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result - and have been since at least the time of Odysseus - of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventures happen in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home. As soon as you have crossed your doorstep or the county line, into that place where the structures, laws, and conventions of your upbringing no longer apply, where the support and approval (but also the disapproval and repression) of your family and neighbors are not to be had: then you have entered into adventure, a place of sorrow, marvels, and regret. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#freedom #repression #family

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#poorly #repressed #sexuality #some #well

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up. ↗

— Mary Whitehouse

#any #being #could #ever #further