My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime…

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

— Anonymous

“From prideful wisdom one falls into simple stupidity”

— Kathryn Tanner

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

— P. J. Plauger

War… discrimination… murder… crime… cruelty… pollution… caused by people who are stupid-minded and careless about the world,they only care about their desires.

— Fakhry H Tatanaki

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

— L. Ron Hubbard

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

— Sigmund Freud

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

— Malcolm X

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

— Nancy Mairs

“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and respect given…

— Julie Banks Lewis

“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of…

— Seyla Benhabib

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…

— Thomas Jefferson

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle…

— Shulamith Firestone

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

— Simone Weil

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

— Robin Morgan