63 Oppressive Quotes for You to Enjoy

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis

Good Tyranny Sincerely Most Oppressive May Victims

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. Edmund Burke

Government Nothing Unjust Out Feeble Oppressive Turns

I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land. Bobby Sands

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. Henry A. Wallace

Government Must Industrial Oppressive Form Tolerate Oligarchy Monopolies

Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands. Tecumseh

People Become Year Spring Greedy White Every Our Our People Exacting Cost Atonement More Wrong Between Make Shed Greatest Oppressive Blood Up Yielding Chiefs Whether Them Lands Large Lives Right

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. Thomas Jefferson

Government Own Always Am Oppressive Friend Very Energetic

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. Peter Ustinov

Religion Thought Way Out Easy Easy Way Habit Oppressive

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

Oppression Become System Unnecessary Individuals Institutionalized Oppressive

Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them. Hanya Yanagihara

Loneliness You Hate People Sense Conviction Think Earth Out Born No-One Almost Understands Oppressive Them Who

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 in the confines of his mother's home. Shirin Ebadi

Home Man Culture Women Mother Mind Every Also His Oppressive Women Are Patriarchal Confines Victims Us Let Us Keep Raised

Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund - doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash. Donald Trump

Politics Own Profit Others State State Department Ran Favors Cash Exchange Like Hillary Hillary Clinton She Doing Clinton Oppressive Department Personal Hedge Regimes Theft Many Fund Her

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. Auberon Herbert

Every Immoral Rate Taken Unwilling Oppressive Person Tax

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. Barbara Deming

Vision Behavior Enemies Will Think Our Abandon Adopt Only Naming Concept Enable Nonviolent Tradition Oppressive Familiar Hold Us Choice

For me, the male gaze is oppressive. And I hope if we are building a female gaze that it's inclusive, and it's about pure desire and not how I want people to look in order for them to be desired by me. Christine and the Queens

Hope Me People Pure Building Inclusive Gaze About Look Female How Male Oppressive Order Want Them Desire Desired

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive. Daley Thompson

Great Dark Great Fun Sunny Angeles Colours Polar Moscow Because Around Los Los Angeles Opposite Oppressive Lots Whereas Fun Bright

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive. Ian Mcewan

Funny Every Find Determined Oppressive Quite Turn Novels Actually

After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south. Ilyasah Shabazz

Racism School Mother Parents Birmingham Jim Jim Crow High High School Crow Both Attended Betty New Institute Industrial She Accept Because South Oppressive Normal York Graduating New York Refused After Alabama Her

America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments in the world pariahs. We wash our hands of evil, declining to help despots finance their depredations, even at a cost to ourselves of some economic growth. Jacob Weisberg

Finance World Dangerous Evil Sense Our Despot Consistent Ourselves Admirable Some Cost Economic Economic Growth Most Policy Oppressive Governments Label America Hands Sanctions Declining Certain Help Wash Even Largely Growth Applying

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. James Madison

Unjust Shackles Generally Oppressive Commercial

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years. Jerry Saltz

Work Art Great Become Past Enormous Immaculate Dated New Box Sprawling Aesthetic Were Years Oppressive York New York Spaces Place Fifteen Large Many Paintings Even Designed

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