Quotes tagged "repression"

It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence and has only recently relaxed its hold somewhat, allowing us to question it perhaps, but always in the context of and through its repression? In reality, this question, so often repeated nowadays, is but the recent form of a considerable affirmation and a secular prescription: there is where the truth is; go see if you can uncover it. [...] It is reasonable therefore to ask first of all: What is this injunction? Why this great chase after the truth of sex, the truth in sex?
— Michel Foucault

Tags: truth, the-history-of-sexuality, sex, repression, philosophy

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
— Criss Jami Killosophy

Tags: war, truth, tension, suppression, secrecy, run, rivalry, resistance, repression, pressure, peace, mankind, man, lying, lies, honesty, force, feuds, dishonesty, dangerous, bitterness

মৃত্যুকে জানি তুমি আসবেই । তাহলে এ প্রতীক্ষা কেন ? তোমার জন্য আমি পথ চেয়ে : ফুরিয়ে গিয়েছে সব কাজ। আশার দীপ্র আলো কবে নিভে গেছে । দরোজা রেখেছি খুলে তোমার নামের এক সরল বিস্ময় আসবে তেমন আশায় । অতএব যা-আদল নিতে চাও, নাও : ছুঁড়ে মারো তোমার বিষাক্ত বোমা আমার বাসাকে লক্ষ্য করে, কিংবা পেশাদার খুনি-গুণ্ডার লাঠির ঘায়ে মেরে ফ্যালো, কিংবা কন্ঠে ঠেশে দাও তান্ত্রিক-জ্বরের বিষ-ধোঁয়া, যদি তুমি তাই চাও, ঘুম পাড়াবার গল্প হয়ে অসংখ্য নিরপরাধ যেভাবে তোমায় চেনে, এসো : গুপ্ত পুলিশের নীল টুপিখানা দেখাও আমাকে । ভয়ে কাঠ মুখে রক্ত উবে-যাওয়া কাজের লোকের হাত কাঁপে ; আমার পরোয়া নেই । এনিস নদীর স্রোত বয়ে যায়, মাথার ওপরে জ্বলে উত্তরের তারা আর প্রিয় চোখ জুড়ে পুরোনো নীলাভ আলো শেষতম আতঙ্কের জন্য যশোহীন ।
— Anna Akhmatova Antologia Poética (Anna Akhmatova) - L&Pm Clássicos Modernos

Tags: repression, love, faith, dictatorship, death, bigbrother

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.
— Wilhelm Reich Listen

Tags: repression, religion, race, nationalism, memory, love, history, class

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb. If the gods would tax ecstasy, then I shall pay; however, I shall protest their taxes at each opportunity, and if Woden or Shiva or Buddha or that Christian fellow--what's his name?--cannot respect that, then I'll accept their wrath. At least I will have tasted the banquet that they have spread before me on this rich, round planet, rather than recoiling from it like a toothless bunny. I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to tempt us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.
— Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume

Tags: suffering, salvation, repression, religion, prayer, desire, deprivation

Sex then ought to be contained – but it was not denied. In the writings of the Roman elite, like any other appetite it was, as Peter Brown has observed, something to be admitted and managed rather than something to be ashamed of. The feast of the Liberalia was on 17 March; a now sadly forgotten festival at which Roman citizens celebrated a boy’s first ejaculation. In Roman medical manuals, ejaculation had been readily and openly discussed by classical doctors who advised it for health and getting rid of the seed that might otherwise cause headaches. It was thought that if athletes could abstain from sex they would be stronger. Orgasms and sex were even recommended for women’s health.
— Catherine Nixey The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

Tags: sex, repression, monotheism, knowledge, christianity

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
— W. E. B. Du Bois

Tags: repression, cost, less, than, price, liberty

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
— Salman Rushdie

Tags: repression, ruthless, about, pretty, good