Quotes About Oppression

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell

In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." (Orwell, "1984")

America is very, very cruel to its artists. It doesn't give them a chance for growth. It doesn't give them elbow room for change. There's no room at all for failure." - Carol Marcus Matthau

But whether the new would follow the course which the old had followed, that he did not know, and now at last he was almost certain that he did not even desire that the cycle should be repeated. He suddenly thought of all that had gone to build civilization--of slavery and conquest and war and oppression.

Si le cortas la lengua a un hombre, no demuestras que estuviera mintiendo: demuestras que no quieres que el mundo oiga lo que pueda decir.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

Some people hurt others just because they can.

Why must we draw these lines, these fine distinctions, these labels and barriers that set us apart? Ace and nat and joker, capitalist and communist, Catholic and Protestant, Arab and Jew, Indian and Latino, and on and on everywhere, and of course true humanity is to be found only on our side of the line and we feel free to oppress and rape and kill the "other," whoever he might be. (From the Journal of Xavier Desmond)

Nunca ha existido un esclavo que no escogiera ser esclavo. Puede que la elección fuera entre los grilletes y la muerte, pero la elección estaba siempre allí.

Slavery is not the same as rain," she insisted. "I have been rained on and I have been sold. It is not the same. No man wants to be owned.