Oppressive Quotes
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one`s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Bill Lovejoy
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"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?
Pat Robertson
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C.S. Lewis
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(Expressing his displeasure about not getting enough screen time on "Saturday Night Live" (1975)): "All that waiting around for a glimmer of stage time, just getting angry every week...It was just an oppressive, horrible, horrible place to be. I went to w...
Jay Mohr
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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Peter Ustinov
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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police, but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship", we call it "concern for commercial viability."
David Mamet
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Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother`s home.
Andrea Peiro
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When they talk about family values, it`s in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
James Hillman
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When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and ene...
Adam Beach
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
Alex Acker
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We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.
James Hillman
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There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
Andrea Bagley
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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
Alicia Townsend
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The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you`ve got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
Jonathan Miller
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My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I`ve been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
Jim Garrison
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Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
Andrew Krcik
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Andre Grant
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In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.
Andrea Bagley
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I`ve read the Bible, but I felt like a lot of the Bible was oppressive towards women. Then I read the Quran, and I thought it was also oppressive towards women.
Robert Webb
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I`ve read the Bible, but I felt like a lot of the Bible was oppressive towards women. Then I read the Quran, and I thought it was also oppressive towards women.
Robert Webb
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
Al Hostetler
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci
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Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
Al Gonzales
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron`s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may...
C.S. Lewis
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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples emb...
George W. Bush
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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples emb...
George W. Bush
Keywords: aggression :: are :: choose :: dictators :: differences :: embrace :: fight :: free :: governments :: in :: know :: midst :: nations :: oppressive :: peace :: peoples :: quick :: resolve :: strive :: support :: terror :: terrorists :: that :: the :: their :: to :: we :: whileSource: quotationspage.com
