Merlin Stone
Author, Feminist
"The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites."
Suppression quotes
Suppression
12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Saul Bellow
Novelist
"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."
Ming-Dao Deng
Author
"Expression is never helped by suppression."
Cormac McCarthy
Novelist, Screenwriter
"The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression."
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"Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence."
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