Oppresive Quotes & Sayings

Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government ... can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people. — George Washington

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. — John Ruskin

I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me. — Sally Struthers

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state. — Antonio R. Damasio

As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street's surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume. — A.F. Stewart

At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child. — Lydia Davis

Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it — Thomas S. Monson

how much of the present slide towards Fascist ways of thought is traceable to the 'anti-Fascism' of the past ten years and the unscrupulousness it has entailed? — George Orwell

oh love, doesn't the fact that the world is so big,
laid out like ripe fruit
make you want to stay? — Andrew McMillan

The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique. — Charles Derber