Quotes About Oppression

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it.

When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

What kind of times are these, when To talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.

The river that everything drags is known as violent, but nobody calls violent the margins that arrest him.

Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness, Could never be friendly ourselves.

I won't let you spoil my war for me. Destroys the weak, does it? Well, what does peace do for'em, huh? War feeds its people better.

When the waters poured into Atlantis, the rich men still screamed for their slaves.

For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age.

THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction.

The law was made for one thing alone,for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. And anyone who wants a crumb of this exploitation for himself must obey the law strictly.

And I did work out something: that the rich of the earth indeed create misery, but they cannot bear to see it. They are weaklings and fools just like you. As long as they have enough to eat and can grease their floors with butter so that even the crumbs that fall from your table grow fat, they can't look with indifference on a man collapsing from hunger - although, of course, it must be in front of their house that he collapses.

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

It's sensible, anyone can understand it. It's easy. You're not an exploiter, so you can grasp it. It's a good thing for you, find out more about it. The stupid call it stupid and the squalid call it squalid. It is against squalor and against stupidity. the exploiters call it a crime But we know: It is the end of crime. It is not madness, but The end of madness. It is not the riddle But the solution. It is the simple thing So hard to achieve. -"Praise of Communism

Tutti vedono la violenza del fiume in piena, nessuno vede la violenza degli argini che lo costringono.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?

Las revoluciones se producen en los callejones sin salida. Cuando la verdad es demasiado débil para defenderse y tiene que pasar al ataque.

Sanotaan: rajusti syöksyvä virta on väkivaltainen. Kukaan ei sano: virtaa kahlitseva uoma on väkivaltainen.

La ley se ha hecho pura y exclusivamente para explotar a aquellos que no la entienden, o a quienes la miseria impide respetarla. Y quien quiera obtener su mendrugo de esa explotación, debe atenerse estrictamente a la ley.