#suppress

Poems are difficult to silence. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#poems #poetry #silence #suppression #censorship

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#adjoining #down #everybody #hold #knows

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#anyone #books #ever #heard #i

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ↗

— James Boswell

#among #conversation #excellencies #good #i

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit. ↗

— Marianne Faithfull

#i think #me #natural #spirit #suppressing

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#denies #others #person #rights #suppressing

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. ↗

— Vachel Lindsay

#ideas #ignoring #only #suppressing #them

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. ↗

— Lord Northcliffe

#news #rest #somebody #somewhere #suppress

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#billion #convinced #culture #deny #faith

Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. ↗

— James Boswell

#equality #fear #gender #intelligence #men