Suppressed Quotes

#1. Pornography and obscenity ... work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground
situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is strong.

Rory Kinnear

#3. I suppressed another shiver - I did not want Zachary taking off any more clothes on my account.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#4. Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.

James MacDonald

#5. When one gender is so unwanted, so despised, and so suppressed in a place where daughters are expressly unwanted, perhaps both the body and the mind of a growing human can be expected to revolt against becoming a woman. And thus, perhaps, alter someone for good.

Jenny Nordberg

#6. Owing to the high infant mortality of the times, estimated at one or two in three, the investment of love in a young child may have been so unrewarding that by some ruse of nature, as when overcrowded rodents in captivity will not breed, it was suppressed.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.

Sigmund Freud

#8. Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Repressed and suppressed feelings require counter-energy to keep them submerged. It takes energy to hold down our feelings. As these feelings are relinquished, the energy that had been holding down the negativity is now freed for constructive uses.

David R. Hawkins

#10. suppressed hysteria.

Nicholson Baker

#11. Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.

Douglas Adams

#12. Music is one way of saying things that you cannot really say to a person face to face, a sign of suppressed anger, unhealthy, deadly and gigantic idolatry.

The Eldest

#13. News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

Katharine Graham

#14. The sudden appearance of pain and pressure are not indicative of an injury, but of the presence of suppressed emotions.

Heidi DuPree

#15. Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

Timothy Leary

#16. The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.'

Walter Russell

#17. We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.

Thomas Merton

#18. In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Alex Jones

#19. Mr. John Coleman, who invented the Weather Channel, represents over 30,000 scientists who cannot get their voices heard on the main stream media, since they hold a viewpoint on Global Warming that runs opposite to the government and media template. The voices of reason are being suppressed.

Peter DeGraaf

#20. Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#21. Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

David Horowitz

#22. Grief is just so scary ... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.

Anne Lamott

#23. Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. Suppressed pain chokes us; in our breasts
It surges, adding ever to its strength.

Ovid

#25. There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

Dora Russell

#26. Silence consumed my whole life; it suppressed things I could never express. My silence was responsible for my family's happiness. Silence was my prison.

Natasha Preston

#27. The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deliver.
Again it bore a single word. But this time the word was Please.

Laini Taylor

#28. Instead of singing, like the birds, I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory before my door, so I had my chuckle or suppressed warble which he might hear out of my nest.

Henry David Thoreau

#29. I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.

Khaled Hosseini

#30. The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

Robert Trout

#31. What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.

Chris Hani

#32. The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

Edward Gibbon

#33. One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him too deeply.

Joseph Heller

#34. She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.

Megan Whalen Turner

#35. Fears are like vampires; not only do they drain your life energy, but they also disintegrate when they are brought into the light. By constantly facing your fears, they eventually lose their power, as the suppressed and repressed energy behind them dissipates.

Maximus Freeman

#36. The thing suppressed as an intrusion," Eric said, "is almost always worth looking at.

Rachel Kushner

#37. Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#38. Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#39. It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#40. I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.

Jack Bowman

#41. Jean Laffite was a sexy bad boy with a gentleman's manners and an air of barely suppressed danger. Every girl's secret dreamboat in other words. We always say we want a nice, hardworking, decent guy but we're lying to ourselves. - DJ Jaco

Suzanne Johnson

#42. On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed.

William Shakespeare

#43. If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#44. China, the nation which suppressed every citizen in the country who has a different opinion to the government while the rulers sneak "peacefully" into every market in wider world of Diverse cultures.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#45. And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever it is, close to 50 languages. There was an attempt to suppress the writer. And I'm happy to say the writer wasn't suppressed.

Salman Rushdie

#46. It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

J. Edgar Hoover

#47. I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

Michelle Shocked

#48. Deep in my chest, a burning sensation emerges, as if any minute the suppressed panic that has been simmering is going to burst out. I squeeze my eyes shut again, for the pain has become unbearable. Another soft whimper escapes.

Kimberly Readnour

#49. When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst

Jeremy Hammond

#50. All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

Nikola Tesla

#51. I suppressed a shudder at the image. Blood is so very gross to me. If I
give myself a paper cut, I nearly hyperventilate.

Rachel Hawkins

#52. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

C.S. Lewis

#53. When we don't deal honestly with our lives and the losses we face, when we try to anesthetize the pain and move on, then the suppressed anger or fear or guilt will deal with us until we are ready to deal with those issues.

Sheila Walsh

#54. he was evidently in a state of suppressed exultation

Anonymous

#55. That the whole nation, tired of war, actually only longed for order, quiet, and a little security and bourgeois life. And, secretly it hated the republic, not because it suppressed this wild freedom, but on the contrary, because it held the reins too loosely.

Stefan Zweig

#56. Any feeling, emotion or impulse that originates from the 'mind' can never be suppressed.

Deep Trivedi

#57. He was a likable man: sweet-tempered, ready-witted, frank, without grins of suppressed bitterness or other conversational flavors which make half of us an affliction to our friends.

George Eliot

#58. The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

John Buchanan Robinson

#59. The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

Germaine Greer

#60. His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

Hilary Mantel

#61. My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

Ross Macdonald

#62. Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.

Tilda Swinton

#63. I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

John Henry Mackay

#64. One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

Charles Horton Cooley

#65. The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed.

Germaine Greer

#66. If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

Abraham H. Maslow

#67. Another example may be the robust revival today of traditional or pre-revolutionary beliefs, rituals, customs, ceremonies, and even superstitions, most of which were once strenuously denounced and suppressed during the nation's drive for a cosmopolitan modernity.

Xiaobing Tang

#68. If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished ...

Algernon Sidney

#69. I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Lionel Jospin

#70. In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

E. Stanley Jones

#71. Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why?

Nick Davies

#72. By Genesis 6:5, we see that "the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." The fear of God was suppressed by man's thirst for the ungodly. How does Yahweh respond to this rebellion? He sends a flood.

Chris Poblete

#73. Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

Albion W. Small

#74. While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.

Gwynne Dyer

#75. There is not one, but many cures for cancer available. But they are all systematically suppressed by the ACS, the NCI, and the major oncology centres. They have too much of an interest in the status quo.

Robert Atkins

#76. Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.

Alexander Lowen

#77. When negative feelings are suppressed positive feelings become suppressed as well, and love dies.

John Gray

#78. Apartment houses, public transportation, and schools tell us something about the technical development of a society. They do not tell us whether the members of that society are suppressed subjects or free workers, whether they are rational or irrational men and women.

Wilhelm Reich

#79. America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.

Helen McCrory

#80. I discovered that we liked each other. But I was fearful of giving free rein to my emotions. Fearful that all those emotions and longings I suppressed would spill forth, rendering me bitter and cruel.

Jacqueline Carey

#81. I suppressed the urge to raise my hand and let them film my middle finger.

Megan Crewe

#82. Dan felt a throb of resentment (officious prick) but suppressed it.

Stephen King

#83. My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.

Carl Sagan

#84. Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

Roy Hattersley

#85. Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#86. Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Michael Tippett

#87. In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America
and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#88. We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.

Thomas Paine

#89. Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.

Deena Metzger

#90. Kippenger suppressed a grin
I could've sworn he did. Without looking at anyone, he said, "Jargon wrote, 'You'll get nothing from me, ever, you dog-breath, rotted corpse of a king.'"
Vargas flowered at me. In return, I smiled and looked around the room, rather proud of myself for that.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#91. Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

Lindsey Graham

#92. Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed - they're to be acknowledged.

Jennifer Lane

#93. Christopher entered the room, having to bend his head to pass through the small medieval doorway. Straightening, he surveyed their surroundings briefly before his piercing gaze found Beatrix. He stared at her with the barely suppressed wrath of a man to whom entirely too much had happened.

Lisa Kleypas

#94. You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.

William Allen White

#95. [Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

Betty Friedan

#96. For hundreds of years the monks have held the pen, and what they have written is what we take to be our history, but I do not believe it really is. I believe they have suppressed the history they don't like, and written one that is favourable to Rome.' Henry

Hilary Mantel

#97. They needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.

Martha N. Beck

#98. We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly ... when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.

Leslie Feinberg

#99. Master was clearly determined to push my boundaries. I wanted to please him so badly. I suppressed my safeword. I wanted to be a good little subbie-wife for him.

Al Daltrey

#100. She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.

Bonnie Greer