Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music…

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides…

— Sharon Salzberg

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

— Erykah Badu

One of the struggles that I have with classical music is the way one thinks about a recapitulation. There's always this idea of themes,…

— Julia Holter

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