“ 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- Copy
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“ We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive. ”
- James Hillman- Copy
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“ We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. ”
- Judd Gregg- Copy
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“ I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude? ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ A little learning is a dangerous thing and a good deal of it is suffocating. ”
- George Ade- Copy
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“ A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry. ”
- Paul Taylor- Copy
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“ Resist the suppressive pressure to contract, and instead expand in defiance. ”
- Bryant McGill- Copy
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“ What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste, And in a cruel wantonness of power, Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up To want the rest. ”
- Robert Blair- Copy
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“ Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit. ”
- Robert K. Greenleaf- Copy
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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. ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden. What the moment brings forth is all that brings profit. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ And I wander aloneWithout haste without hope without fearWithout pressure or touch — There is no moanOf Souls dyingNothing hereBut the warmDry airless sweet scentOf the alleys of deathOf the corridors of death. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity. ”
- Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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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. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels. ”
- Paul Goodman- Copy
- 911
“ 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- Copy
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“ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ”
- C.S. Lewis- Copy
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