Authors:

Suppression Quotes

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Lenny Bruce
Giving, Violence, Suppression
"It’s Worse Than Jerry Seinfeld Says: PC Is Undermining Free Speech, Expression, Liberties" by Mick Hume, www.salon.com. July 20, 2015.

It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

J. Edgar Hoover
Information, Certain, Suppression

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

Merlin Stone
Rights, Suppression, Rite

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

Harriet Martineau
Truth, Suppression, Diffusion
Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.147

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Saul Bellow
Oppression, Accuracy, Suppression
The Adventures of Augie March ch. 1 (1953)

Expression is never helped by suppression.

Ming-Dao Deng
Expression, Feel Good, Suppression

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

Vida Dutton Scudder
Peace, War, Suppression
Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

Susan Glaspell
Denial, Hell, Suppression
Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook (1921). “Plays”

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

Cormac McCarthy
Women, Machines, Suppression
Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Justified, Circumstances, Suppression
Source: dhakadigest.net

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

Thomas Jefferson
Benefits, Monopoly, Suppression
Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.344

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Self, Interest, Suppression
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

You May Also Like: