I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at…

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“Nostalgia is a rebellion against an oppressive reality and an ontological search for the essence of one's being.”

— Anonymous

I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember…

— Rafael Cruz

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force…

— Samuel Lover

To me, when you're at a hotel and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a little bit…

— Matt Bomer

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

— Anonymous

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which…

— Audre Lorde

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

— Jonathan Miller

Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?

— Manal al-Sharif

Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against something while…

— John D'Agata

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

— Herbert Spencer

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on…

— Jordan Peterson

When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has been oppressive…

— Jamaal Bowman

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

— James Madison

“Christmas always used to get me down. There was something oppressive about all those twinkling colored lights. "Are you happy?" "Do you fit in…

— Chica Umino