Quotes About Oppression

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang, hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.

Every Independence Day since Khoudi could remember, the protests had grown, as people had woken to the irony of celebrating freedoms that existed only on paper.

Ono što bi se za njih naro?ito moglo kazati, to je: da nije bilo odavno pokolenja koje je više i smelije maštalo i govorilo o životu, uživanju i slobodi, a koje je manje imalo od života, gore stradalo, teže robovalo i više ginulo nego što ?e stradati, robovati i ginuti ovo.

Kaže se, raja se odmetnula, raja je neposlušna i nevaljala. Jeste. Ali treba znati da raja ne diše svojom dušom, nego sluša dah gospodara. To vi dobro znate. Uvijek se gospoda prvo iskvare, a raja samo prihvati. A kad se jednom raja otme i pohasi, idi slobodno pa traži drugu, jer od te nema više ništa.

teški su zli gospodari, ali su još teže njihove nasilne i drske sluge i ?ankolizi.

God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.

The thing about denying someone their voice in this life is that it tends to come out in death.

Let's go!' Peter yelled and ran off, his voice echoing through the mall. 'Last one to strike out at our imperialist oppressors is a Trotskyite stooge!' Some people stay in college way too long.

as with any ugly time the innocents suffered and paid more than those who incited the ugliness.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. —Blaise Pascal

power doesn't just corrupt in the wrong hands, it mutilates.

from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?

No one beats me, no one starves me, no one spits on me. How can I regard myself as a victim of prosecution when my sufferings are so petty? Yet they are all the more degrading for their pettiness.

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

Lucy was frightened, frightened near to death. Her voice choked, she could not breath, her limbs went numb. This is not happening, she said to herself as the men forced her down; it is just a dream, a nightmare. While the men, for their part, drank up her fear, revelled in it, did all they could to hurt her, to menace her, to heighten her terror. Call your dogs! they said to her. Go on, call your dogs! No dogs? Then let us show you dogs!

I tell myself I talk to Friday to educate him out of darkness and silence. But is that the truth? There are times when benevolence deserts me and I use words only as the shortest way to subject him to my will. At such times I understand why Cruso preferred not to disturb his muteness. I understand, that is to say, why a man will choose to be a slaveowner. Do you think less of me for this confession?

Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.

Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong.

I can't breathe.

The wasteland that is your memory now comes under the absolute dictatorship of idols too terrible to mention.