(73 quotes found)
“The repression of all those daring to resist the autocratic regime represents a severe challenge to the restoration of democracy in Nepal.”
Warren Christopher
“We have the impression the government has decided to respond to the student movement with truncheons and repression.”
Bruno Julliard
“There is more repression, a more repressive atmosphere and there are no new ideas coming from the government. It is behaving as if everything is normal and that is what is making the situation really bad.”
Masipula Sithole
“The United States calls again on the Belarusian government to cease repression of political campaigns and civil society groups, and to respect the rights of Belarusian citizens.”
Tom Casey
“This is the type of thing you would expect from a repressive regime, ... This is not the type of thing you would expect from the United States. If I read this to you and did not tell you that is was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that have no concern for human beings.”
Dick Durbin
“Repression has been a vague and controversial construct for over a century, in part because it has been unclear how such a mechanism could be implemented in the brain.”
Michael Anderson
“What the movie is most deeply about -- it's about our own latent possibilities of repression, stereotyping and prejudice, ... To see Americans rounded up in the streets, to see Americans put into stadiums, to see people held without habeas corpus -- to have their rights violated in such a way is such a chilling and just terrifying thing to see -- that is what one takes away, I believe, from this film.”
Ed Zwick
“the biggest wave of repression this year.”
Elizardo Sanchez
“NATO's air campaign in succeeding in weakening (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic 's repressive capability, and we are exacting a heavy price for his ethnic cleansing activity, ... NATO's resolution remains unshakable.”
George Robertson
“There must have been great yearning and repression in Mohamed Atta's life; it is the torment of Atta's generation. They were placed perilously close to modernity, but they could not partake of it.”
Fouad Ajami