All Quotes By Tag: Repression

“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.”

Card image cap - Tom Robbins,
Tag: deprivation, desire, prayer, religion, repression, salvation, suffering,

“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.”

Card image cap - Wilhelm Reich,
Tag: class, history, love, memory, nationalism, race, religion, repression,

“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.”

Card image cap - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Tag: angular, anorexia, anorexic, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, as-thin-as-a-rake, beefy, beer-bellied, big-boned, blubbery, bony, chubbiness, chubby, chunky, corpulence, corpulent, diet, eat, emaciated, energies, energy, fat, fatness, fatty, flabbiness, flabby, fleshy, food, funny, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, gaze, gazing, glutton, gluttony, greed, greedy, gross, grossness, heavyset, hilarious, hollow-cheeked, humor, humorous, humour, impression, joke, jokes, junk, junk-food, lanky, large, lean, looking-like-a-bag-of-bones, meaty, obese, obesity, of-ample-proportions, overweight, paunchy, pinched, plump, plumpness, plus-sized, porky, portliness, portly, potbellied, pudgy, quotations, quotes, rangy, rawboned, repress, repression, roly-poly, rotundity, satire, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skin-and-bones, skinny, slender, slim, spindly, stare, staring, sticklike, stout, stoutness, suppress, suppression, takeaway, takeaways, takeout, takeouts, thin, tubby, underfed, undernourished, urge, urges, waiflike, well-upholstered,

“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”

Card image cap - Criss Jami,
Tag: bitterness, dangerous, dishonesty, feuds, force, honesty, lies, lying, man, mankind, peace, pressure, repression, resistance, rivalry, run, secrecy, suppression, tension, truth, war,

“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?”

Card image cap - Michel Foucault
Tag: philosophy, repression, sex, the-history-of-sexuality, truth,