Quotes About Oppression

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.

I began writing about power because I had so little.

The world we are is a secret prison and the secret prison is power.

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.

I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.

I seek no favor untouched by blood.

Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.

.......only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.Powerful.

power happily walks hand in hand with abuse

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons.

Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

They're terrified of us Firefly, all of them are.""Well, good, " I replied, forming a tiny ball of flames in my fingertips, which were curled round the handle on the back of the bike. "They should be.

Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.

Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant