Quotes About Oppression

There are so many people that are offended by debate and free speech that sometimes governments cower. It's just way easier to play into the hands of people who are totalitarian.

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper, but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state beneath.

Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.

Well, like in Orwell books, whom I cherish very much as an author, in classical totalitarian regimes, you always have to make people hate someone. And this hatred is all around the Russian politics.

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state.

The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.

For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

The BBC's candid observations and unfortunate experiences in Pyongyang this week spoke to the extreme level of control under which people there are forced to live. I'm not optimistic."

A few hundhred scrawls o' chaps with a couple o' guns and Rosary beads, again' a hundhred thousand thrained men with horse, fut an' artillery… an' he wants us to fight fair!

The crime of seditious libel implies that the people are inferior to the state, and that their criticisms are unacceptable to their master. An

should Americans ever find themselves faced with an incorrigible government of totalitarian oppression, a government that has abandoned the very principles this nation was founded upon and that reconstituted a slavery like that of the past, then the people have the natural, inalienable right to change the government as they see fit, and the spirit of this amendment clearly applies.

This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets of passage were rescinded and the bailiffs of God took back the papers of their soles.

It wasn't a crime to beat an Indian, not at all.

La población, en definitiva, debía acostumbrarse a vitorear y a ponerse en pie aunque no tuviese ningún motivo real para ello. A su vez, esto fue razón suficiente para que –¡psst!–, todos los días y todas las noches por medio de látigos de acero y taladros percutores se causara la muerte de quienes no participaban con bastante energía. Así que vitoreemos y ululemos con los lobos, heil, heil! Además se le acababa cogiendo el gusto.

What happened was a nightmarish reversal of normal circumstances: robbers and murderers acting as the police force, enjoying the full panoply of state power, their victims treated as criminals, proscribed and condemned to death in advance.

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

Alarmistii fuseser? dintotdeauna victimele unei represiuni atât de s?lbatice, cât ?i de oculte.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

By oppression's woes and pains, By your sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins But they shall be free! Robert