#Suppression Quotes

“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.”

“And of course there must be something wrongIn wanting to silence any song.”

“There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.”

“We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?”

“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

“One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim is to penalize anti-social acts; actually their aim is to penalize heretical opinions. At least ninety-five Americans out of every 100 believe that this process is honest and even laudable; it is practically impossible to convince them that there is anything evil in it. In other words, they cannot grasp the concept of liberty.”

“The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.”

“In war, one cannot say what one feels.”

“Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.”

“Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again.”

“Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.”

“The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.”