Quotes About Oppression

In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

Wage-slaves, free in name only, are much cheaper to exploit, and work harder than slaves.

Avrupa'da diktatörlerin güç kullan?p zorlayarak yapmaya çal??t?klar?n? eÄŸitim yoluyla baÅŸarmak.

Look again at the seven lessons of school teaching: confusion, class position, indifference, emotional and intellectual dependency, conditional self-esteem, and surveillance. All of these lessons are prime training for permanent underclasses

Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

Workers who complained or died were turned into zombies, so labor unrest was never a problem.

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

With the film V for Vendetta, whose imagery borrows heavily from Nazi Germany's Third Reich and George Orwell's 1984, we come full circle. The corporate state in Vconducts mass surveillance on its citizens, helped along by closed-circuit televisions. Also, London is under yellow-coded curfew alerts, similar to the American government's color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System.

This frightening state of affairs–where a person can actually be arrested and incarcerated for the most innocent and inane activities, including feeding a whale538 and collecting rainwater on their own property539 (these are actual court cases)–is due to what law

Obedience is the precondition to totalitarianism, and the precondition to obedience is fear.

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."1 —JAMES MADISON

That execrable sum of all villainies, commonly called the Slave Trade.

My cool judgement is, that if all the other doctrines of devils which have been committed to writing since letters were in the world were collected together in one volume, it would fall short of this; and that, should a Prince form himself by this book, so calmly recommending hypocrisy, treachery, lying, robbery, oppression, adultery, whoredom, and murder of all kinds, Domitian or Nero would be an angel of light compared to that man.

un etica che gli imponeva di offrire al mondo tiranno visi sempre inespressivi, rigidi e spenti.

Male violence toward women originated with agriculture, which transmuted women into beasts of burden and breeders of children.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

So this was the way they got to you in America. No roundups, no camps, merely insidious cruelty to your children.

Carter found particularly noxious "a mistaken idea of freedom [as] the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others.

Words and terms are born out of a need to describe the world. But because the victors, who get to write the history, had little need to describe the fate of the conquered, the words did not exist soon enough to describe and ultimately prevent the wholesale destruction of black communities in America.

I have always been thankful that Mother started teaching me ahead of time, because it enabled me to skip half the grades in school and thus get out quicker. To me, attending school was a gloomy and unjust imprisonment for offenses I had not yet committed. I still think it is unfair for the authorities to assume that children are going to be so wicked that they are prepared arbitrarily for institutional life instead of activities in the open.

Only concentrated action quells tyranny.

La peggiore violenza contro l'uomo è la degradazione dell'intelletto.