#repress

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

#oppression #politics #representation #repression #society

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#butchers #fear #irrational #life #policemen

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#constant #direction #generally #governments #headed

The seed of revolution is repression. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#revolution #seed

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#good #good people #high #home #hugging

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade. ↗

— Barney Frank

#approach #ask #bin #brutal #did

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#catch #eyes #good #guess #i

Repression is fantastic. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#repression

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