#repress

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#anxiety #causes #discourse #going #great

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

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. ↗

— James Hillman

#about #american #american tradition #century #christian

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#baggage #bring #cannot #genocide #imperial

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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

#developing #evil #good #great #great hope

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #lot #make #movies #repression

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought. ↗

— Alice Miller

#been #childhood #confusion #disputed #most