Repression Quotes

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

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

When the Burmese government tries to blame the victims for the crime, and say that (democracy activist) Aung San Suu Kyi and her party are responsible for their own repression, I can only reply that much the same was once said about Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel... The world is not fooled. And we must not be silent. - Madeleine Albright

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. - Abbie Hoffman

What the movie is most deeply about -- it's about our own latent possibilities of repression, stereotyping and prejudice... To see Americans rounded up in the streets, to see Americans put into stadiums, to see people held without habeas corpus -- to have their rights violated in such a way is such a chilling and just terrifying thing to see -- that is what one takes away, I believe, from this film. - Ed Zwick

Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential. - Susan Rice

We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate. - Joan Didion

We see ourselves as a link in a long chain to a struggle that is still going on; it will always go on, ... As long as there is repression and justice in the world, someone will always stand out. - Muhammad

We need to act at the same time on prevention, repression, education, housing, jobs ... and not play the cowboy. - Laurent Fabius