#repress

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

— Michel Gondry

#even #makes #money #more #music

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#horrible #i #just #made #me

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accept #access #back #century #done

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

#also #american #back #coalition #coalition forces

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#government #inevitably #invariably #irony #like

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#entertaining #event #exciting #i #i think

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't. ↗

— Cora Carmack

#desires #losing-it #repression #unrequited-love #love

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see. ↗

— Criss Jami

#afraid #change #cognition #experimentation #eyes

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#age #been #between #classical #considerable

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene. ↗

— Jay Roach

#after #because #becomes #bit #composure