Repressive Quotes

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

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

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

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.

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.