Repression

(121 votes)   We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Stuart Mill
1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist

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(106 votes)   In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(105 votes)   People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.

Brian Friel
1929-, Irish Playwright, Author

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