Quotes About Oppression

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'

The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said.

No, my girl, you know nothing of how we women are imprisoned in our lives, but there are ways to determine the sentence we must serve.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness

if people believe in infinite bliss in the afterlife, they'll be more willing to accept an appalling degree of oppression and injustice in this life. From anybody. Oddly, this is often framed as a plus. "Religion gives people hope in hardship." It gets presented as a feature, not a bug.

Crush the rich, take food from the poor, keep them barefoot, hungry, uninformed, uneducated, and moneyless. That's how a dictator rises to power.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.

On the grave among the pine trees, a boy knelt weeping, his chest, racked by sobs, heaving in the darkness, oppressed by an immense grief gentler than the moon and more unfathomable than the night.

lo que nos demuestra, de paso, que los sacerdotes han estado siempre sumidos en una ignorancia ignominiosa, en la que se esfuerzan por hundir con ellos a los pueblos.

Život koji sam potiskivao u sebe stisnuo se u srce i stezao ga da ga zadavi.

that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments. [ On Water ]

When he woke up in the darkness of his hot and stuffy room he felt, even before his mind began working again, that painful oppression or malaise of the soul left in us by some grief we have slept on. It seems as though the misfortune which merely grazed us the day before has worked its way during our sleep into our very flesh and is bruising and exhausting it like a fever.

Ces gens ne se sont battus que pour vider les silos ou piller des convois. Ils semblent n'avoir agi ni par haine, ni par fanatisme religieux, mais par faim. Notre système de colonisation consistant à ruiner l'Arabe, à le dépouiller sans repos, à le poursuivre sans merci et à le faire crever de misère, nous verrons encore d'autres insurrections.

The dominion of the concentrated spectacle is a police state.

The spectacle is a permanent opium war designed to force people to equate goods with commodities and to equate satisfaction with a survival that expands according to its own laws.

Con la massa degli oggetti cresce ... il regno degli enti estranei a cui l'uomo è soggiogato. E' lo stadio supremo di un'espansione che ha ritorto il bisogno contro la vita. Il bisogno di denaro è quindi l'unico bisogno prodotto dall'economia politica, e il solo che esso produca.

Fascism is technologically equipped primitivism.

the working class is also occluded from representing itself in the throng of images that make up the society of the spectacle.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.

Every woman has known the torment of getting up to speak. Her heart racing, at times entirely lost for words, ground and language slipping away - that's how daring a feat, how great a transgression it is for a woman to speak - even just open her mouth - in public. A double distress, for even if she transgresses, her words fall almost always upon the deaf male ear, which hears in language only that which speaks in the masculine.