#suppress

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It is more important to move on to positive actions without stopping to wallow in anger about injustices -- including the unjust suppression of inventors. Exposing the skeletons in the closet serves to enlighten, but getting off-message with retribution will be counter-productive.


Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon


#positive-vs-negative #suppression #anger

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.


Virginia Woolf


#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #encroachment #feminism

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!


E.A. Bucchianeri


#free-will #freedom #heart #heartache #liberty

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

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

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.


Frederick Douglass


#free #free speech #hearer #rights #speaker

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.


James Daly


#innovation #suppress #you

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.


Ethan A. Hitchcock


#buried #ceremonies #civil #down #forms