Oppressive Quotes
162 quotes by 146 authors
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a…
— Roland Barthes
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It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or…
— Gary Bauer
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
— Edmund Burke
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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently…
— John C. Calhoun
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When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.
— Robert K. Greenleaf
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We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised…
— James Madison
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Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is just a convenient…
— Walter E. Williams
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There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty…
— Lysander Spooner
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When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry…
— Irene Fernandez
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The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always…
— Abraham Lincoln
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According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait…
— Alain de Botton
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To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive…
— James Madison
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There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much…
— Alexander Hamilton
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One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
— James Madison
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I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which…
— Mark Twain
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For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive…
— Newt Gingrich
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What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone who possesses and…
— Jon Sobrino
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I bring good tidings to our beloved Prophet Muhammad: Allah's promise and the Prophet's prophecy of our victory in Palestine over the Jews and over…
— Khaled Mashal
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