The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Suppressed grief suffocates it rages within the breast and is forced to multiply its strength.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history which has been either suppressed or distorted.
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
A moment comes which comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance the memory of it.