Oppressive Quotes

162 quotes by 146 authors

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
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. — Edmund Burke
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. — James Madison
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
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
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
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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