63 Oppressive Quotes for You to Enjoy

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive. John Griffin Carlisle

Enormous Our Revenues Surplus Oppressive Illogical

The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive. John Lurie

Time Somewhere Takes Piece Pass How Oppressive Up Just Public Room Much Sculpture Thing Inconvenient

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

You Experience Burden Past Think Only Got Go Oppressive Avant-Garde

They did laugh; they did fall in love. And while they were under incredibly oppressive conditions, they constantly were trying to steal pleasures. When you go back to the slave narratives, and you read books like the 'Bullwhip Days' or 'Incidents in the Life of the Slave Girl,' they will share what life was like, and it's a 365-degree view. Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image. K. Flay

You People Dark Sense Thinking Filtered Our Ourselves Dark Places Find Physical See About Touch Conception How Oppressive Very Wanting Places Themselves Really Now Image

Light-skinned privilege is largely through a white lens. It is exploited by oppressive forces... It was always a facade. Kendrick Sampson

White Facade Through Forces Always Oppressive Privilege Lens Exploited Largely

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. Lawrence Wright

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition. Lysander Spooner

Government World Men Miserable Would See Could Allowed Most Ballot Condition Oppressive Any Doubtless Use Thereby Chance

One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women's power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress. Mary Beard

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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 oppressive and scary in a way. Especially if it's not done well or not run well. Matt Bomer

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves. Mira Nair

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My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness. Nazanin Boniadi

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Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America's wild places. Nicholas Kristof

Time Own Wild Collectively Percent More Bottom Most Inequality Oppressive Surrounded Escape Than America Substantially Places

The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family. Oliver Ellsworth

Family People Money Wealth Sometimes Prosperity Power Nation Collecting Support Because Private Been Oppressive Public Credit Necessary Rejected

You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city. Peter Diamandis

Today You Privacy People World Dark Radical Dramatically Everywhere City Someone Most Reducing Causing Hear Hear People Loss Oppressive Dictator Happen Whether Might Transparency Things Things Happen Inner Inner City Watching Violence Violent

I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert or one of the Bantu women living in the Congo... imagining I was a different person living in a different place was one of the few ways... that I could escape the oppressive environment I was raised in. Rachel Dolezal

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate. Robert Higgs

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John McCain has taken tens of millions of dollars from special interests and lobbyists in his senate and presidential campaigns. Now, we have to wonder if he will be able to remain objective on national security matters, as millions pour into his 'charity' from oppressive foreign governments. Roger Stone

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There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. Ryszard Kapuscinski

God Religion First Understanding State Positively Several Russian Russians Something Oppressive Authority Sent View Reasons Why Orthodox

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films. Sharon Salzberg

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