Suppress Quotes

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.