Quotes about Repression

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

I sometimes wonder how people like Bart, who no longer believe in the grace of God, handle their guilt. Perhaps, as Sigmund Freud suggested, they repress it by burying the memories of past sins deep within themselves. But Freud went on to explain that such repression doesn't really work in the long run, and that guilt always emerges from the subconscious, sometimes as phobias and sometimes as neurotic behavior.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

Rightly felt anger that's never expressed. You're angry, but you pretend everything's fine. You stuff your anger. You never speak about it. You never address the truth of your feelings. Repressing anger can be one of the most destructive things you can do. It poses a huge health risk. Not to mention you're living a lie.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

My job is to make grown men cry, to blow people's minds and elevate them, make them transcend and unlock emotions that have been repressed by life, their job, situation - that's what I do.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.