Quotes About Oppression

Think hard about it I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

I feel restless, and something seems to weigh me down.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

rational is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression

The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before– which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before.

The slaves of developed industrial Civilization are sublimated slaves, but they are slaves, for slavery is determined "neither by obedience nor by hardness of labour but by the status of being mere instrument, and the reduction of man to the state of a thing.

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.

La libera elezione di padroni e schiavi, non elimina né i padroni né gli schiavi" Herbert Marcuse "L'uomo a una dimensione

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A manís liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?

Wo ein Klima der Ãœberwachung und Bespitzelung herrscht, kann ein freier und offener demokratischer Prozess nicht stattfinden.

there is great danger that modern culture, progressing in its anti-supernaturalistic course, will be stirred against the steadfastness of believers and attempt to accomplish by oppression what it cannot obtain by reasoning and argument.

Vrouwen hebben niet genoeg verstand om optimaal te profiteren van het feminisme.

Fiction harmless? Look at religion. Fiction harmless? Look at the oppressed masses content with their lot because they have embraced the lies imposed on them. History itself is just a fiction—a fiction with an army. And reality? Reality is a fiction with an unlimited budget. That's

Inofensiva, la ficción? Mira la religión. ¿Inofensiva, la ficción? Mira a las masas oprimidas, satisfechas con la suerte que les ha tocado porque se han creído las mentiras que les imponen. La historia misma es una pura ficción; una ficción provista de ejército. ¿Y la realidad? La realidad es una ficción con presupuesto ilimitado. Nada más. ¿Y cómo se financia la realidad? Pues con otra ficción: el dinero. El

No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it's being watched.

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

All of that pile on you so that, sooner or later, you cannot bear it anymore. And in that situation I started to write, because there was no other ways for me to express, except through the vicious cycle of words.

In the trinity of skin, bones, and brown water, men and women lose all difference.

In der Fabrik hing oben am Giebel, der am höchsten in den Himmel und am tiefsten in den Hof schaute, eine Losung: Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt euch. Und unten auf dem Boden gingen Schuhe, die das Land nur in der Flucht verlassen durften.