Government Quote by Edmund Burke

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

— James Madison

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence…

— Lysander Spooner

“Christmas always used to get me down. There was something oppressive about all those twinkling colored lights. "Are you happy?" "Do you fit in…

— Chica Umino

I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember…

— Rafael Cruz

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force…

— Samuel Lover

To me, when you're at a hotel and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a little bit…

— Matt Bomer

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

— Anonymous

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which…

— Audre Lorde

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

— Jonathan Miller

Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?

— Manal al-Sharif

Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against something while…

— John D'Agata

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

— Herbert Spencer