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«Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression»
Author: Dick Feagler
| About:
Equality
| Keywords:
equality, equality of opportunity, outcome, repression
«If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Age of Reason, classical, considerable, link, repression, sexuality, the Classical
«If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.»
«The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.»
«We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
dread, escaping, exhilaration, for a while, Just One, masking, official, repression, social action
«So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold -- by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
business letter, card, go forward, hold dear, orderly, posted, prosper, put forward, repression, the Wrecks, utter, wrecks
«Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.»
«And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Strength
| Keywords:
knit, knits, knitted, knitting, repress, repressed, repressing, repression, screaming, strengthen
«Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
analytic, as it were, doctrines, effects, helped, historical, invalidate, invalidated, invalidating, on the contrary, operation, Precepts, proposal, proposals, put forward, relic, relics, religious doctrine, replacing, repression, residues, teachings, treatment
«The seed of revolution is repression.»
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