For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort,… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
For Beirut it was the civil war, and the dividing of the city - which is something that is shared among Beirut,… — Tamer El Said Copy Share Image
“In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it,… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In fact, it is the dictatorship's policy that isolates the people of Burma while it reaches out to different countries every year… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the kind of political correctness that is about not promoting prejudice. But some people in America are offended… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sadly, the Left is no longer liberal at all, for it has traded in individualism for collectivism, thus placing us into an… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and… — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Copy Share Image
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and… — Leopold Kohr Copy Share Image
Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When a people share a common oppression, certain kinds of skills and joint defenses are developed. And if you survive you survive… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Rights compliance helps effective outcomes, it does not hinder them. That should come as no surprise because the 'human rights' in the… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image