“ He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. ”
- William Penn- Copy
- 3.8K
“ No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ”
- Dune Frank Herbert- Copy
- 141
“ The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
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“ You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. ”
- Learned Hand- Copy
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“ Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
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“ There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed. ”
- Rose Kennedy- Copy
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“ But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression. ”
- John Locke- Copy
- 666
“ What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
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“ Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. ”
- Andrew Johnson- Copy
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“ The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. ”
- Daniel D. Palmer- Copy
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“ Non violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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“ Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 489
“ Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided. ”
- General Iberico Saint Jean- Copy
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“ The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. ”
- Meridel Le Sueur- Copy
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“ You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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