“not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. — James Madison 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
Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses… — Laurie Halse Anderson 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 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
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted.… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Religion, throughout the years, has become a very oppressive thing that doesn't allow people to get to know the God it was… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
“To the less privileged it was this arbitrariness that made the regime's power feel so oppressive. There were no clear principles or… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive. — Gayle Rubin 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
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time,… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
“Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense,… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
“Once the dust of volcanic love has settled and the harshness of a new reality has become oppressive, disillusionment may have to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Also, this is our lives for a huge part of the year and we did not want to be in prison, 24/7.… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
