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Quotes About Oppression

Every people subjugated by the jihad now dreams of a leader to come.
~ Frank Herbert
He is living proof that there is little difference between the police mind and the military mind. I told him, "Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
~ Frank Herbert
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
~ Frank Herbert
Debería existir una ciencia del descontento. La gente necesita tiempos difíciles y de opresión para desarrollar sus músculos físicos. · —De Frases escogidas de Muad'Dib, por la princesa Irulan
~ Frank Herbert
the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.
~ Frank Herbert
The plodding, self-important language of government enraged him.
~ Frank Herbert
When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
~ Frank Herbert
He hates his God Emperor! No . . . he fears him. But don't we always hate what we fear?
~ Frank Herbert
When force closes the mouth of inquiry," Duncan said, "that is the death of civilization.
~ Frank Herbert
His wide mouth was twisted into a pleasant sneer, and the scar of the inkvine whip slashed across his jawline seemed to move with a life of its own.
~ Frank Herbert
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.
~ Frank Herbert
Dovrebbe esistere una scienza dell'infelicità. La gente ha bisogno di tempi difficili e di oppressione per sviluppare i propri muscoli psichici.
~ Frank Herbert
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said.
~ Frank Herbert
One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders. "Two: When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. "Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!
~ Frank Herbert
the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.
~ Frank McCourt
Mr. O'Halloran tells the class it's a disgrace that boys like McCourt, Clarke, Kennedy, have to hew wood and draw water. He is disgusted by this free and independent Ireland that keeps a class system foisted on us by the English, that we are throwing our talented children on the dungheap.
~ Frank McCourt
The girls all know the score. No escape. No surrender. No mercy. We got to kill every last rat bastard one of them, every last one. Not for revenge. Not because they deserve it. not because it'll make the world a better place. We need a heap of bloody bodies so when the mob boss, Wallenquist, looks over his charts of profits and losses, he'll see what it cost him to mess with the girls of Old Town.
~ Frank Miller
Wait till you see-at the same time that your family is dying for lack of bread-a hundred thousand acres of wheat-millions of bushels of food-grabbed and gobbled by the Railroad Trust, and then talk of moderation. That talk is just what the Trust wants to hear. It ain't frightened of that. There's one thing only it does listen to, one things it is frightened of-the people with dynamite in their hands,-six inches of plugged gaspipe. That talks.
~ Frank Norris
Without men to do your killing, the woman will have power over you!" "She doesn't know that!
~ Frank Peretti
All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control
~ Frank Zappa
Gustavo Solivellas dice: La religión es excelente para mantener callada a la gente común (Frank Zappa)
~ Frank Zappa
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
~ Franz Kafka
Wherever I turn, the black wave rushes down on me.
~ Franz Kafka
Don't look at him! he snapped, without noticing how odd it was to speak to free men in this way
~ Franz Kafka