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Repression quotes

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“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

“The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

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