Oppressive Quotes

162 Oppressive quotes by 145 unique authors

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
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has… — George Eliot
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason. The way she would get sulky and make references to the freaking oppressive nature… — John Green
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling… — Alice Miller
It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial… — Mark Levin
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British.… — Nathaniel Philbrick
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open… — Moshe Safdie
I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during… — Rafael Cruz
I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in… — Al Jolson
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame.… — Henry Rollins

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