Definition of Repressive

Repressive

Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures.

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Repressive Quotations

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
James Hillman

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Theodor Adorno

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
Johnny Rotten

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
Jane Rule

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
Barney Frank

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.
Bianca Jagger

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
Don DeLillo

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
Don DeLillo

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
Natan Sharansky

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.
Janet Suzman

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
Herbert Marcuse

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
Luc Ferrari

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.
Michael Douglas

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Noam Chomsky

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.
Leopoldo Lopez

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Repressive Translations

repressive in German is repressiv
repressive in Spanish is represivo

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