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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

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.


W. E. B. Du Bois


#less #liberty #price #repression #than

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.


Noam Chomsky


#atrocities #called #coming #go #government

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#bullets #discovered #i #injustice #real

When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the result must be just this terror of individualistic impulses setting us apart, either above or below our neighbours; just this determination to obey without questioning and to subscribe with passion to the conventions and traditions. The dilemma becomes a very real one: How can this sense of democratic equality be made compatible with respect for exceptional personalities or great minds? How can democracy, as we understand it today, with its iron repression of the free spirit, its monotonous standardisation of everything, learn to cherish an intellectual aristocracy without which any nation runs the risk of becoming a civilisation of the commonplace and the second-rate?


Harold Edmund Stearns


#civilization #conventions #distinction #equality #individualism

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

Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be held indefinitely. In the absence of effective restorative experiences, the reactions to trauma will find expression. As the child gets older, he will turn the rage in upon himself or act it out on others, else it all will turn into madness.


Judith Spencer


#amnesia #dissociation #madness #memory #memory-loss

Setting aside the truth value of the UFO phenomenon, it is an interesting sociological reality that so many people are unwilling to discuss the most - and at times traumatic - experience of their lives. What does it say about our society that this is so? My feeling is that, by its very nature, it represents a form of repression. If you are a reader who believes UFOs to be nonsense of some sort, I can nevertheless assure you that you have a friend or relation who has seen one. They have simply learned not to discuss it. Many people can live perfectly well within the constraints of repression and denial; they simply learn to shut off certain parts of their mind. It is sad, but it happens all of the time. But not everyone is the same. Not everyone is willing to do this, or even can do this. By any estimate, there are may millions of people on this planet who have had a powerful UFO experience. They cannot and will not be silenced indefinitely.


Richard Dolan


#ufos #experience

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

It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.


Philip Kaufman


#another time #back #coming #expression #film






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