“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
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 Copy Share Image
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As oppressive as this nation is, of course people using drugs. They're trying to find a way to escape, who am I… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“This is the case in every society: those who pose no challenge are rarely targeted by oppressive measures, and from their perspective,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“These young men, in other words, represented a variety of types, but one thing they had in common was that they'd all… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Love has the power to create an inviting space in the lives of people. But if daily routine kills dreamy or passionate… — Erik Pevernagie 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
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
“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
“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
“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
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive. — Gayle Rubin Copy Share Image
“A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. — Edmund Burke 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
