I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

- Ang Lee

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

- Antonio Tabucchi

Repression is fantastic.

- Courteney Cox

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

- C. K. Williams

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

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

I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.

- Mohamed ElBaradei

Power tends to get confused with repression.

- Olivia Wilde

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

- Salman Rushdie

The seed of revolution is repression.

- Woodrow Wilson