Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing man will civilize.
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.
There is too much repression and suppression in schools.
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.
Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.
It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.
Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the most underreported stories.
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
Expression is never helped by suppression.
I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show that the suppression of debate about Palestine and about the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement - within many academic circles - does seek to establish those who would address such issues in speech as already collaborating with "terrorist" regimes, although now only Hamas is officially terrorist according to the US government and its allies.
Every time voter fraud occurs, it cancels out the vote of a lawful citizen and undermines democracy - can't let that happen. Any form of illegal or fraudulent voting, whether by non-citizens or the deceased, and any form of voter suppression or intimidation must be stopped.
Transcendence of sex is a totally different phenomenon from the suppression of it. But suppression can give you the feeling that you have transcended.
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
