Quotes About Oppression

Sometime the shittiest, most oppressive thing about being a girl is how good you're supposed to be all the time. And sometime that feeling of an enforced, expected goodness can come from feminism. The thing about being a poet, an artist, a writer is you can't be good. You shouldn't have to be good. You should, for the sake of your art, your soul, and your life go through significant periods of time when you are defying many notions of goodness.

I concluded that, unhappily, I'd been born into a world dominated by a rampaging monster called 'law' that was both all-powerful and all-stupid

Humans use fear to domesticate humans, and our fear increases with each experience of injustice.

The personal dream of humans will vary, but globally it is mostly a nightmare. If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

The belief system rules the human life like a tyrant. It takes our freedom away from us and makes us its slave.

Some people can lead the whole world into a great war where millions of people die. There are tyrants all around the world who invade other countries and destroy their people because the tyrants believe in lies.

Nedir ki özgürlük? Bir sis, bir serap, bir kurgu... Bu uÄŸursuz demokratlar?n hezeyan?...

Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk.

If you look at old Earth's bloodiest periods, there are several patterns that repeat. One is missionaries come. Missionaries get killed. Army comes. Houses and crops get burned. Natives get killed. And the flag comes last. Suddenly a whole lot of local folks find themselves with an empress or kaiser or president they never voted for.

The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator...

People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.

El fin de todo esto es trágico: el que hace muy poco se sabía con el poder en las manos, se encuentra de pronto inmóvil en una caja de madera; y los que lo rodean, conscientes de su inutilidad, le queman en un horno.

Talia ta, szanowne obywatele, znajduje siÄ™ tera w siódmym rzÄ™dzie, u obywatela Parczewskiego, jak raz miÄ™dzy banknotem trzyrublowym a wezwaniem do sÄ…du w sprawie o zalegÅ'e alimenty dla obywatelki Zielkowej.

Pogroms were whipped up every minute and people were murdered daily, especially Jews of course.

Co to takiego – je?li kto? zaczyna rozmow?, musi si? to bezwzgl?dnie zako?czy? aresztowaniem?

that every form of authority means coercion over men, and that a time will come when there shall be neither Caesars, nor any other rulers. Man will come into the kingdom of truth and justice, where there will be no need for any authority.

Nieustannie trzeba przesuwa? wojska, czyta? donosy i skargi, a po?owa z nich to donosy i skargi na mnie!

One is the much-quoted 'Manuscripts don't burn', which seems to express an absolute trust in the triumph of poetry, imagination, the free word, over terror and oppression, and could thus become a watchword of the intelligentsia. The publication of The Master and Margarita was taken as a proof of the assertion.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

the liquidation of the intelligentsia

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?