654 Quotes About Oppression

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

ThatNeed to knowYour enemyTo surviveIs bitter.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.

In academic circles influences by Said, any reference to acts of 'terrorism' was soon regarded as off-limits, a reflection of Zionist efforts to discredit the legitimate aspirations of a subject population by casting aspersions on their so-called freedom fighters. In this way, 'blaming the victim' was deployed as an ideological weapon that might constrain debate.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

The patriarchy longs for the days 'when men were men' and women were oppressed, subservient - and they can see no wrong in it. It justifies its former power and lust to hold on to it - and if possible, to regain it by quoting fundamentalist and radical religion and tradition and calling it 'love'. Some love. How can oppression and power over another person's life ever be 'love'?