“Bill Maher, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have all been frustrated by this question: Why is the Left refusing to… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way,… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
To me, when you're at a hotel, and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
“One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Christmas always used to get me down. There was something oppressive about all those twinkling colored lights. "Are you happy?" "Do you… — Chica Umino Copy Share Image
According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive… — Al Jolson Copy Share Image
To me, when you're at a hotel and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
It's oppressive. ... It's food, it's clothing, it's all the magazines that come under the heading of things looking simple. Men's magazines… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
“True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions". They live like Martin… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The rude, raw, 'let it all hang out' freedom of the Californian hippies was in fact the most censorious and oppressive of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
“I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“No matter what your circumstance, if you provide kids with creative ammunition, they will blast holes into an oppressive reality, and conceive… — A.J. Mendez Brooks Copy Share Image
My dad felt oppressed by the hearing man. All his friends would express to me sometimes how oppressive their own country was… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of… — Daley Thompson Copy Share Image
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
