Oppressive Quotes

162 quotes by 145 authors

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
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue… — Ronald Reagan
me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all… — Ambrose Bierce
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are… — Jean de La Fontaine
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than… — Morris Raphael Cohen
Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform. — Susan Cain
I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more. — Elia Kazan
Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the… — Julie Berry
When you're convinced that you're right and you believe that you have the license to do anything because you're right, you can be bossy and… — Terry O'Quinn
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out… — Gail Collins
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. — Confucius
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised… — Shirin Ebadi
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. — Oriana Fallaci
We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive. — James Hillman
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. — Thomas Jefferson
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. — C.S. Lewis
To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of… — Samuel Lover
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. — James Madison
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive. — Ian Mcewan
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. — Taslima Nasrin

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