Word: repressiveness
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...this and all other freedoms really are. Freedom is a precious right, but it is not an unlimited right and it ends where license commences. It is the duty of the authorities to guard jealously that freedom of thought and speech given us by the Constitution but also to repress with equal vigor the license, which seeks to destroy that Constitution, upon which all freedoms depend, and to replace it with slavery and chaos...
...months of 1950, Cripps reported, Britain and the rest of the sterling area had chalked up a dollar surplus of $40 million more than ECAid; it was the first time since war's end that the sterling area had been out of the red, and few M.P.s could repress their, cheers...
...histories of secret sex behavior have been made to appear not as thoughts injected by the authors and their supporters, but as undeniable truths derived from the figures of the survey, Zimmerman explained. "These opinions will give huge prestige to the idea that it is useless and needless to repress...
...better to let children swear than to repress this enthusiasm," to give them freedom to bite, scratch, break furniture, tear up books, attend classes only when they have nothing else to do, is more than asinine. It is vicious...
...Neill's belief that it is better to let children swear than to repress this enthusiasm; he finds that it presently wears itself out. It is the same, he feels, with other repressions. At Summerhill, the worst behaved children are always the newcomers, because, of course, they have been most repressed. New pupils often work out their repressed hate of their elders by biting, scratching, swearing interminably and "being generally anti-social." Says Mrs. Neill: "A small boy will sometimes walk in here, fix me with a glare and say, 'You stupid bitch.' But it doesn...