Oppresses Quotes

36 quotes by 32 authors

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,… — Whitney M. Young
He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if… — William Ralph Inge
The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of… — Mao Zedong
The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus has faded in… — Edward Schillebeeckx
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the… — Monique Wittig
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. — Wendell Phillips
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; — Paulo Freire
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with… — Edward Irving
I always live in the present. I donâ€™t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of… — Fernando Pessoa
Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him… — Thomas Aquinas
When a thought oppresses you, do not be downhearted, but put up with it in courage, saying, 'They swarmed around me closer and closer, but… — Pachomius the Great
The Iranian regime calls for the annihilation of Israel, it oppresses its own citizens, it's part of the murder going on in Syria and it's… — Mark Regev
One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter. — Gautama Buddha
Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. — Manuel Puig
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. — Chinua Achebe
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations. — Friedrich Engels
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites. — Chuck D
Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me. — Fernando Pessoa

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