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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

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why? — Paulo Freire

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

What is amazing and revolutionary today will be oppressive tomorrow. — Bryant McGill

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways. — Hany Ghoraba

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

But you get used to the air alright in the end. When you're here for the second or third time you'll hardly notice how oppressive the air is. — Franz Kafka

The greatest political problem facing the world today is ... how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds. — Leonard Read

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity. — Bell Hooks

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

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. — James Madison

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

The real pressure must be made more oppressive by making men conscious of the pressure, and the disgrace more disgraceful by publishing it. — Karl Marx

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

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

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

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

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

Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. — Ken Follett

Allah will support the just state even if it is led by unbelievers, but Allah will not support the oppressive state even if it is led by believers — Ibn Taymiyyah

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

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

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

She's a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive. — Han Kang

Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned. — Ina Catrinescu

Not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a suffocation of the soul. — Tom Robbins

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

If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work — Jeff Chain

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

It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist. — Gary Bauer

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

Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes. — A.H. Septimius

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. — Toni Morrison