Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.
Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
Psychics tap into what is collective: our regret and our sense of time going by; our common repression and anxieties.
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
The past only has power over you when it's forgotten... ignored or repressed.
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.
The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.
Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free. The repressed are not free to do what they want. That's what 'Star-Crossed' was all about for me.
I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.
