654 Quotes About Oppression

Acts of terror committed by a government is still terrorism.

A people which subjugates another people forges its own chains.

Orwell was interested above all not in the rationalizations of the dominant, but in the excuses and whimperings of the submissive.

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

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

In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematised oppression, can be made to feel surplus, to occupy the space of the dehumanised inferior.

Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.

. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of governments.

But there is a difference between the systematic evil of totalitarianism and the ordinary corruption we find in all institutions, at all times. Totalitarianism is a system of highly organized murder and oppression, driven by ideology. American institutions, in comparison, were not created to facilitate mass murder and dictatorship.