You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.
If we're constantly suppressing our strong, heavy emotions - like fear and anger and outrage and sadness - it weakens us. But when we're not afraid to confront the hard emotions - when we don't turn away from the pain and the suffering of the world - it builds the confidence that we can do whatever we need to do.
Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. . . . You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.
Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing.
As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybody in science, and more than can be consumed in our time. One may get a fair name by suppressing references, but the Jewish maxim is true, 'He who seeks a name loses fame. '
the Republicans are all about suppressing votes.
When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.
Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.
For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.
Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.
Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.
There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.
When we're feeling fully alive, we're able to fully feel love. This doorway also relates to feeling our feelings fully. Not suppressing our feelings of anger, sadness or grief but allowing them to be felt. What's amazing is that when those feelings are felt, they actually dissolve into love.
Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
