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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.


Aleister Crowley


#sex #sexuality #suppression #nature

Expression is never helped by suppression.


Deng Ming-Dao


#suppression #taoism #harmony

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.


Virginia Woolf


#dignity #empowerment #feminism #gender #history

Poems are difficult to silence.


Stephen Greenblatt


#poems #poetry #silence #suppression #censorship

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


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#been #black #distorted #either #history

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.


Joyce Appleby


#avoid #contention #creating #discourses #inseparable

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.


Rowan Atkinson


#aware #certainly #clever #confidence #creative

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

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express


Wilhelm Reich


#oppression #suppression #truth #courage

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






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