Oppression Quotes
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That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.
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Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.
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As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
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The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.
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Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.
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If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.
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History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.
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Histories are instruments of oppression.
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Oppression is the essence of power.
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You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.
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Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
