Oppressive Quotes

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Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not… — Bertrand Russell
Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses.... — Laurie Halse Anderson
...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust… — Vladimir Nabokov
In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally… — James W. Loewen
I don't kill people. Perhaps it's just another inhibition to do away with it. Perhaps not. There's really no way of telling. It's possible I've… — Jhonen Vasquez
When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them;… — Thomas Paine
Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even… — David Sedaris
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent… — Ron Paul
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows… — Vladimir Nabokov
We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our… — Winifred Holtby
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for… — H P Lovecraft
There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves… — Max Stirner
It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit… — Robert Fisk
If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter… — James Earl Jones
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. — Toni Morrison
Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need… — Alaa Al Aswany
Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in… — Susan Cain
...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward… — Kristin Cashore
It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back… — Brandon Sanderson

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