Top 340 Oppressive Quotes & Sayings

Russia isn't only oppressive toward gay people, it is hard on everyone, particularly women.

In North Korea, it was actually an oppressive regime and that's why I escaped with my life.

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

The politics of fear has delivered everything we were afraid of. It's important to take a lesson from the days of Richard Nixon, when people stood up under a very oppressive president with a very oppressive Supreme Court.

We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

There is relief coming. This is good for America. This means that we can lift the oppressive weight of the regulatory state. We can restore the Constitution.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

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

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the Internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating.

We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.

Partitions and cubicles can be oppressive. They are so boring.

Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive people and move to a new land. Where they thrived. And became an oppressive people. You get certain people on the same continent, there's going to be a problem. Pilgrims and Indians. Protestants, Catholics. My family, anybody else's family.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty. George Baumler Quotes.

Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

Light-skinned privilege is largely through a white lens. It is exploited by oppressive forces... It was always a facade.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

Fidel's oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.

Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.

The rude, raw, 'let it all hang out' freedom of the Californian hippies was in fact the most censorious and oppressive of societies that I have encountered.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying to direct a revolution.

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.

Young people increasingly have become subject to an oppressive disciplinary machine that teaches them to define citizenship through the exchange practices of the market and to follow orders and toe the line in the face of oppressive forms of authority. They are caught in a society in which almost every aspect of their lives is shaped by the dual forces of the market and a growing police state.

While other faiths are also often oppressive, sharia law is especially oppressive. Its interpretations stipulate the execution of Muslims who commit adultery, renounce their faith (apostates) or have same-sex relationships. Sharia methods of execution, such as stoning, are particularly brutal and cruel - witness the stoning to death this week in Somalia of a 20-year-old woman divorcee who was accused of adultery. This is the fourth stoning of an adulterer in Somalia in the last year.

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.

Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the two should not clash.