Repressing Quotes

Well, even if it should, and I certainly want to see an end to the IRA and an end to all of the armed groups, simply saying it and demanding it isn't going to achieve it. You have to look at what has worked. What hasn't worked is marginalizing people, demonizing people, criminalizing people, repressing people, fighting with people. - Gerry Adams

It is the supreme test of a system of government whether its machinery is adequate for repressing the selfish undertakings of cliques formed on special interests and saving the public from raids of plunderers. - William Graham Sumner

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways. - Guy Pearce

Human beings like to avoid pains. They would actually have more difficult because the mind would keep repressing the pain until it gets resolved. So exposure therapy is actually a way of helping the person to relive it in a short burst of time and helps them mind put a closure on it. - Lorie DeCarvalho

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. - Joseph Collins

[The government insists it is not repressing religious or political rights.] Some people may argue that Vietnam does not have freedom and democracy and only has a one-party system. But you know, our ultimate goal is to maintain political stability and serve the interests of the people... We do not agree with arguments from the outside that there are prisoners of conscience in Vietnam. We do not have any prisoners of conscience in Vietnam. - Phan Van Khai