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Repression Quotes

"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."

"The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it."

"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."

"Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression, or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities."

"Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished "

"I don't believe there is a powerful and mysterious 'popular will', a common will that expresses itself inexorably in spite of repression."

"I told it not, my wrath did grow "

"The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id."