Repress Quotes

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity. - Henri Nouwen

You explore the negative vibe hoping to expose a bias upon which the court may act in your favor. Or you repress any expression of delight from the positive vibe hoping that opposing counsel has not identified a connection between you and the prospective juror. - Eroll Skyers

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. - Helena Bonham Carter

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

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

Will not tolerate a return to all-out fighting and a policy of repression in Kosovo. - Javier Solana

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. - Jimmy Wales

When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism wherever you see organized religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law. - Philip Pullman

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression. - Antonio Tabucchi