Suppressed Quotes

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

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

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.