Oppressive Quotes

162 Oppressive quotes by 145 unique authors

I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more eager to burn… — Matt Walsh
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies… — Barbara Deming
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins,… — Pat Robertson
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. — Phyllis Schlafly
...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness… — John Blacking
Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered… — Camille Paglia
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender… — Judith Butler
Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is… — Mary Daly
I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really… — Tim Burton
In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind,… — L. Ron Hubbard
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for… — Jim Garrison
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. — Susie Bright
In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide.… — James W. Loewen
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century… — James Hillman
If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge… — Rajneesh
Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it, and… — Gayle Rubin
Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under… — Gerry Spence
It's oppressive. ... It's food, it's clothing, it's all the magazines that come under the heading of things looking simple. Men's magazines don't seem to… — Debora Spar
The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic,… — Kirkpatrick Sale
When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence… — Unknown Author
Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they… — Bell Hooks
One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming… — Robert K. Greenleaf
Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like lean,… — Brad Alan Lewis
When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was… — Adam Beach

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