And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
“Every time I surrender, even necessarily, to authority which disregardingly or contemptuously violates me, so I violate myself. Every time I break an unnecessary law, doing so for my own joy and to the detriment of no other human being, so I regain myself, and become strong in the parts of me that the security man can never see.”
William T. Vollmann