It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.
Hazel Henderson
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Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
His government has been a fiasco. Under his leadership, there has been more kidnappings, rapes and violence against civilians, as well as repression against the masses.
Jean Robert Lafortune
We have seen continued fighting and reports of atrocities. It only underscores the brutality of the Milosevic regime and his blatant disregard for human life, and the necessity for NATO's strong response to his repression.
David Leavy
Things are headed for confrontation if he doesn't respond to what people are demanding. Then we would get into a phase of bloodshed and more repression.
Yubaraj Ghimire
,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
Alice Miller
Just as we did in the McCarthy era, we have offset the decline of traditional forms of repression with the development of new forms of repression. A historical comparison reveals not so much a repudiation as an evolution.
David Cole
Surely the United States should do what it can to prevent dictators elsewhere from inferring that repression works.
Bill Kristol
And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.
George Martin
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
The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to overstep this natural threshold by resolving repression in a violent manner will, as with every other form of violation, have negative and often dangerous consequences.
Alice Miller
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
Toni Morrison
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
Michel Foucault
Just needs to understand very clearly that if he continues to use massive repression against the people there, that NATO has authority to act.
James Steinberg
The government wants to block the independence of the judiciary. Judges are speaking out against arbitrary laws and repression of individuals, and so the authorities feel they must stop them.
Nasser Amin
The situation in Kosovo is very difficult and dangerous. The offensive by Serbian police and military forces continues, as well as the shelling of Albanian villages ... In other parts of Kosovo, repression continues.
Ibrahim Rugova
The main question is whether there will be mass repression after the election, whether the screws will be tightened even more.
Yakov Basin
We have created this space despite great difficulties and repression.
Miriam Leiva
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Nukes, crime, repression -- these are the key aspects of support for the North Korean leadership.
David Asher
We do not believe that you can ask people who have been victims of an ongoing repression and most recently of genocide to now have to go back to live in an occupied territory by the Serbian government.
American Council
We condemn this harassment of independent activists seeking to participate peacefully and constructively in an international meeting. Sadly, this type of intimidation and repression is typical of the way the Sudanese authorities often operate.
Maureen Byrnes
Repression will provoke rebellion.
Hugh Williamson
Old repression that (former President Leonid) Kuchma had used against me and my family.
Yulia Tymoshenko
Trade promotes private enterprise, which creates wealth, which improves living standards, which undermines political repression.
David Drier
The biggest wave of repression this year.
Elizardo Sanchez
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