One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education. . . The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests, everyone taught us how to control and suppress our anger. But I ask: why can't we convert our anger for the larger good of society?
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
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.
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest rates are 150 percent?
As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.
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.
You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.
The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.