“What is amazing and revolutionary today will be oppressive tomorrow.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Russia isn't only oppressive toward gay people, it is hard on everyone, particularly women. — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies? — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the Internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat. — Rex W. Tillerson Copy Share Image
Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Fearing the judgment of others I condemned myself … failing in my quest for perfection the oppressive weight of judgment steadily pressing… — David W. Earle LPC Copy Share Image
When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs,… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“t nightfall, at the oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes rose out of the swamps, and a tender breath… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that… — Andreja Pejic Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very difficult country, a very oppressive situation because of the Somoza dictatorship. My family was in opposition… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution.… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
“What, exactly, she had been protesting was subject to interpretation. To the poorest, her self-immolation was a response to enervating poverty. To… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because,… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
“My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together.… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
“The character had repressed all his guilt and self-doubt, the things that might make him appealing to viewers. He was simply a… — Kathleen Gilles Seidel Copy Share Image
I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Here’s the thing about oppression: It’s rarely the result of one person’s actions and often it’s not even intentional. As philosopher Carol… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is… — Golda Poretsky Copy Share Image
“The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
“As Black people, if there is one thing we can learn from the 60s, it is how infinitely complex any move for… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“All the beauty in the world was made within the oppressive limitations of time and death and impermanence.” — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is a rebellion against an oppressive reality and an ontological search for the essence of one's being.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unilateral sanctions on Cuba have been oppressive and largely ineffective, and that's why the public largely supports lifting them. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
“That’s the oppressive thing about happiness, the way everything is out on the table like an open book:” — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
