Systematically Oppressed Quotes & Sayings

No man should curse love. Ultimately, love is all there is. — David Gemmell

The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one's life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional and hence avoidable, but are systematically related to each other in such a way as to catch one between and among them and restrict or penalize motion in any direction. It is the experience of being caged in: all avenues, in every direction, are blocked or booby trapped. — Marilyn Frye

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts. — Honore De Balzac

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. — Richard Lugar

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. — Paul Simon

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter. — Buster Keaton

After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn't say, "I fuck therefore I am". — Jeanette Winterson

Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise. — Aysha Taryam

You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution. — Jay Maisel

I have, for a few years, been writing comedy prose - short pieces for my blog - because I found it to be a good way to write while I was on a TV show. It was different enough from my scripts that it felt like a break, but it still was comedy and very fun. I like to do comedy! — Megan Amram

I look for challenges to keep me going. — Paul Pierce