suppressed truth Quotes

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

If you shut up the truth and bury it in the ground, it will grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.

I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

If the Holocaust that you talk about was real, why don't you allow the subject to be studied? One can freely research any issue, except for this issue, which is sealed. It is a black box, which they do not allow to be opened or reexamined. They do this in order to exploit it.

I am not agnostic. I am atheist. I don’t think there is no God; I know there’s no God. I know there’s no God the same way I know many other laws in our universe. I know there’s no God and I know most of the world knows that as well. They just won’t admit it because there’s another thing they know. They know they’re going to die and it freaks them out. So most people don’t have the courage to admit there’s no God and they know it. They feel it. They try to suppress it. And if you bring it up they get angry because it freaks them out.

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

In families like mine, there is no crime worse than telling the truth.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. "I

Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.