Oppression Quotes - Page 4

Oppression makes a poor country.

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor.

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

How shall Integrity face Oppression?

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

Why can't we have a voice? What's the difference between an athlete having millions or Donald Trump? Every time a politician talks, they talk about what's wrong with America. Well, he's an athlete who is also saying something is wrong with America. Why is it that when he talks, people say, 'How can he talk about oppression and make millions?' Well, Trump is talking about it. Hillary Clinton is talking about it. And they have more money than most athletes.

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.