#repress

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#design #heavily #i #i think #know

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

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#dangerous #express #fears #people #repressed

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

While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling is diminished. The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid. Suppression entails the development of chronic muscular tension in those areas of the body where the feeling would be experienced. In the case of sexual feeling, this tension is found in and about the abdomen and pelvis ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#health #repression #sex #sexuality #suppression

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#play #repressive #rule #self-discipline #while

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#cracked #early #i #idolatry #open

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#anything #appear #british #british people #course