Quotes About Oppression

She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.

First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life.

La lutte de l'homme contre le pouvoir est la lutte de la mémoire contre l'oubli.

But the people who struggle against what we call totalitarian regimes cannot function with queries and doubts. They, too, need certainties and simple truths to make the multitudes understand, to provoke collective tears.

Almost from childhood, she knew that a concentration camp was nothing exceptional or startling but something very basic, a given into which we are born and from which we can escape only with the greatest of efforts.

Is it right to raise one's voice when others are being silenced? Yes.

Narodi se likvidiraju tako da im se najprije oduzme sje?anje. Unište im se knjige, obrazovanje, povijest. Netko drugi im napiše druge knjige, da im drugo obrazovanje i izmisli drugu povijest. I narod onda postupno po?ne zaboravljati što je bio i što je sada, a svijet oko njega to zaboravi još mnogo brže.

Behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil, and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting syllables in unison. p. 100

In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, and it is the duty of every honest man to ignore them.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant. Even when the trial is of dead people, the point is to kill them off a second time: by burning their books; by removing their names from the schoolbooks; by demolishing their monuments; by rechristening the streets that bore their names.

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do not know how to lie. The Tell the truth! imperative drummed into us by our mamas and papas functions so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman during an interrogation. It is simpler for us to argue with him or insult him (which makes no sense whatever) than to lie to his face (which is the only thing to do).

Ze wilde hun vertellen dat achter het communisme, achter het fascisme, achter alle bezettingen en invallen een wezenlijker en algemener kwaad schuilde; het beeld van dat kwaad is voor haar een optocht van marcherende mensen geworden die de handen heffen en eenstemmig dezelfde lettergrepen schreeuwen. Maar ze wist dat ze hun niet kon uitleggen. Verlegen bracht ze het gesprek op een ander onderwerp.

behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.

Almost from childhood, she knew that a concentration camp was nothing exceptional or startling but something very basic, a given into which we are born and from which we can escape only with the greatest of efforts, p. 137.

the Russian invasion was not only a tragedy; it was a carnival of hate

La lotta dell'uomo contro il potere è la lotta della memoria contro l'oblio

Per liquidare i popoli (..) si comincia col privarli della memoria. Si distruggono i loro libri, la loro cultura, la loro storia. E qualcun altro scrive loro altri libri, li fornisce di un'altra cultura, inventa per loro un'altra Storia. Dopo di che il popolo comincia lentamente a dimenticare quello che è e quello che è stato. E il mondo attorno a lui lo dimentica ancora più in fretta

La lotta dell'uomo contro il potere è la lotta della memoria contro l'oblio.

Aber gerade der Schwache muss stark sein können und weggehen, wenn der Starke zu schwach ist, dem Schwachen ein Unrecht antun zu können.

Dëshira për rend është njëherësh dëshirë për të vdekur, sepse jeta është vazhdimisht shkelje e rendit. Ose, e kundërta, dëshira për rend është vjega e virtytshme përmes së cilës urrejtja e njeriut për njeriun, i përligj keqtrajtimet.

?nsan?n iktidara kar?? sava??m?, belle?in unutu?a kar?? sava??m?d?r.

Berjuang berarti menempatkan kehendak seseorang terhadap orang lain dengan tujuan untuk menghancurkannya, memaksanya bertekuk lutut, dan barangkali membunuhnya.

Aujourd'hui l'âme de la foule, qui s'identifiait peut-être jadis aux misérables persécutés, s'identifie à la misère des persécuteurs. Parce que la chasse à l'homme est en notre siècle la chasse aux privilégiés : à ceux qui lisent des livres ou qui ont un chien.