Quotes About Oppression

Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. --from Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

Culture! They dispense culture the better to rule. Beauty! They promote the beauty which enslaves. They create a literate ignorance—easiest thing of all. They leave nothing to chance. Chains! Everything they do forges chains, enslaves. But slaves always revolt.

Most humans are not strong enough to find freedom within." Sister

The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched.

When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.

People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. We can't have that, can we? And how do you make despotism lovable?

It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…

The Lord Leto says that when it was denied an external enemy, the all-male army always turned against its own population. Always.

The slave makes an awful master

One of the hardest things for a tyrant to find is people who actually make decisions.

Zulme dair hiçbir kokuyu sevmiyorum.

They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity of the sand.

Control the coinage and the courts – let the rabble have the rest." Thus the Padishah Emperor advised you. And he tells you: "If you want profits, you must rule." There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

Ar trebui s? existe o ?tiin?? a nemul?umirii. Oamenii au nevoie de suferin?e ?i de oprimare ca s?-?i dezvolte mu?chi psihici.

The tyranny of the minority cloaked in the mask of the majority," Odrade called it, her voice exultant. "Downfall of democracy. Either overthrown by its own excesses or eaten away by bureaucracy.

ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings. It's

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

OkumuÅŸ cahiller ordusu yarat?yorlar. Hiçbir ÅŸeyi ÅŸansa b?rakm?yorlar. Zincirler! Yapt?klar? her ÅŸey insanlar? zincire vurmaya, köleleÅŸtirmeye yönelik. Ama köleler mutlaka isyan eder.

Arrakeen had become an ungenerous place, a contained place, unreasonable and self-righteous in its harsh outlines.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.