Suppressed Quotes

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

Audrey`s been great for me. She has brought out a side of me that`s more mischievous and fun that I had suppressed, trying to be an adult. She has made it okay to use the power one has as a woman to be manipulative, to be precocious. She goes after what she wants vehemently and she takes it. I think that`s really admirable. I love that about her. - on playing Audrey Horne in "Twin Peaks" (1990)

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.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

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.

I`ve been through some dark times but I`ve experienced joy too. Now that joy can`t be suppressed.

It`s just that if you`re not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

What Charlie did was facilitate and pay people who were going to help people exercise their franchise. What could be accomplished by sending Charlie to prison? The vote of poor people in this country will be suppressed as it always has.

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.

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

The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.

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.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.