Quotes about Suppression
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
- Cicero
Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.
- Mark Batterson
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
- Mark Twain
No matter how hard people work to suppress their knowledge of God, creation itself keeps challenging them. "Human life is a continual wrestling match with God and his created order," writes Thomas Johnson. 14
- Nancy Pearcey
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware
- Paul Tillich
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
- Romans 1:18
Emotional pain is such a strange feeling. You can forget you're in it—or try to, anyway—and then it sneaks up and finds its way to the surface.
- Jennifer Lopez
The universal sin Saint Paul pinpoints in Romans 1:18 is to suppress the truth.
- Peter Kreeft
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
- Michael Douglas
A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him.
- DH Lawrence
I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
- Hillary Clinton
If something upset her, she usually talked about it or cried and then got on the road to getting over it or changing it. … Kate had a tendency to bury her hurts deep inside and when they tried to rear their ugly heads, she effectively pushed them right back down. Kate gave the appearance of handling upsets well, when in actuality she did not handle them at all.
- Lori Wick