Quotes About Oppression

Believe me, I know what I'm talking about. I'm working class. Revolution or not, the working class will just keep on scraping a living in the same old shitholes. And what is a revolution? It sure as hell isn't just changing the name on city hall. But those guys don't know that - those guys with their big words. Tell me, Watanabe, have you ever seen a taxman?

In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God's kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance.

The leaders use their power to crush people's natural desire to think for themselves. It's foot binding for the brain.

The cook hates the waiter, and they both hate the customer," Haida said. "A line from the Arnold Wesker play The Kitchen. People whose freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don't want to live like that.

The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination.

And then there were men who were violently afraid of losing to a woman, the scariest men in the world. They become dictators, heads of state, bureaucrats, men with deadly weapons, they were everywhere. Sometimes she could pick one out with a look, but they were often charming, they had to have the power to attract in order to dominate.

I'd rather be a pig than a fascist

There is no real dignity in any of these costumes. If I'm a maid, I do what the owner of the house tells me to do. If I'm a nurse, I do whatever the doctor tells me to do. What are we as women, other than barnacles that attach themselves to higher life forms in some pathetic attempt to clean up messes? Tidy up what men have left behind- make the world a lovelier, better place for men. I would like to play a part in which I don't have a superior.

My dad had told me that if you stayed out after nine and you were a girl it meant that you wanted to have sex with whoever was passing by. He told me that if I got raped after nine o'clock the courts would probably say I deserved it.

Board games were invented to keep people from thinking so they won't plan a revolution.

majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.

It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.

Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.

There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men.

Kalau orang sudah mulai membakar buku-buku, akhirnya mereka akan membakar manusia.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.

Onde se queimam livros, acaba-se queimando pessoas

Where they burn books they will in the end burn people too

Acolo unde c?rÈ›ile sunt arse, pân? la urm? vor fi arÈ™i È™i oameni.

There, where one burns books, on in the end burns men.

Wer Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt auch Menschen

Wherever people burn books, there, finally, they will also burn people.

Ahí donde se queman libros, acabarán quemando personas