59 Quotes About Suppression

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.

Expression is never helped by suppression.

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

In the case of such “besetting” evil thoughts, our natural reaction is often suppression: to push the offending idea back down, deep into our subconscious, in order to rid ourselves of it quickly. But that never works.The most effective way to truly rid our mind of a suppressed thought is to face it squarely and reject it.