We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons.
If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.
We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.
I hate to do anything that is going to stop or suppress free speech.
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends.
Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
