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To hack away at the oppressive darkness that continued to try to smother her so she could defend a new dawn.
— Elise Kova
My life of sin among people I'm sure he thinks are deviants is happier and more honest that his oppressive, sexist cesspool.
— Thomm Quackenbush
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
— Henry A. Wallace
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
— Herbert Spencer
The dark was oppressive, unrelieved by any neighbouring buildings or sodium light. It felt primeval,
— Jojo Moyes
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
— Antonio Tabucchi
The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.
— Phyllis Schlafly
All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.
— Wangari Maathai
Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
— Auberon Herbert
Misgovernment ... will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.
— Margaret Thatcher
Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.
— John Griffin Carlisle
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
— Gao Xingjian
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.
— William Shenstone
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
— Peter Ustinov
If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
I think I held on for so long because I kept hearing that the alternative, monogamy, was oppressive.
— Fabian Romero
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
— Jonathan Miller
This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The knowledge that someone was trying his best to kill you was overwhelmingly oppressive,
— Ken Follett
When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
— Chenjerai Hove
An oppressive odor of decay now mingled with the stench of mold and seemed to clutch at the very breath in their lungs.
— Kaoru Kurimoto
Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
— Camille Paglia
The speed of modern life is an oppressive thing, and the corporate world is quick to punish those with an honest heart.
— Fennel Hudson
Good historical fiction can bring those sights, smells, and even the oppressive heat so alive, you feel that you are there,
— Erin Brown Conroy
The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.
— Edward Gibbon
Moralism and its stepchild, legalism, reduce the love story of God for his people to the observance of burdensome duties and oppressive laws.
— Brennan Manning
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.
— Eleanor Catton
We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.
— James Hillman
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
— Florynce Kennedy
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
— Walter Kaufmann
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
— Oriana Fallaci
The sorrow was no less in reality, but it became less oppressive from having some one in precisely the same relation to it as that in which she stood.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
— Thomas Jefferson
School's okay. I mean, it's the usual oppressive regime of fascist dogma. But I'm surviving.
— Lili Wilkinson
No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed.
— Junot Diaz
That's the oppressive thing about happiness, the way everything is out on the table like an open book:
— Herman Koch
Winter was much slower. Cold June days were downright oppressive.
— G.J. Walker-Smith
It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
— Christina Stead
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
Firms and employers and monitors will be able to measure economic value with a sometimes oppressive precision.
— Tyler Cowen
He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high stakes.
— Hermann Hesse
Empowering beliefs arise from faith and oppressive beliefs arise from fear.
— Charles F. Glassman
The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.
— Norman Corwin
The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.
— Aaron Rose
A regime which is nominally liberal can be oppressive in reality. A regime which acknowledges its violence might have more genuine humanity.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?
— Manal Al-Sharif
Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned.
— Ina Catrinescu
Power, power, power: how could the world be organized around the struggle for a thing so lonely and oppressive in the having of it?
— Jonathan Franzen
In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.
— Vishal Mangalwadi
We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.
— Gayle Rubin
soothing silence instead of an oppressive one.
— Stefan Zweig
My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
— Taslima Nasrin
Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses ...
— Laurie Halse Anderson
