Oppression Quotes

608 quotes by 408 authors

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. — Herbert Marcuse
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. — Gary Clark, Jr.
We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial… — Paul Levinson
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my… — Kay Arthur
If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal… — Audre Lorde
Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed… — Bob Torres
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends… — George Haven Putnam
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will… — Tariq Ali
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed — Rose Kennedy
Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a "disposable" culture which is now spreading. It is… — Pope Francis
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole. — Arnold J. Toynbee
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find… — Robert A. Heinlein
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society. — Frances Wright
Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of… — Abraham Lincoln
Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation. — Simone de Beauvoir
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of… — Edmund Burke
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole… — John Stuart Mill
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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