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All oppression creates a state of war.

Oppression

PhysicistAustrian1856 · 19th century

4.1 · 35 votes

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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

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John D. Rockefeller

BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

3.0 · 58 votes

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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

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Simone de Beauvoir

NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

3.6 · 56 votes · 196 reads

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

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NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

3.3 · 55 votes

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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of kn

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ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

4.6 · 58 votes

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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

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Simone de Beauvoir

NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

4.3 · 26 votes

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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

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PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

4.2 · 34 votes

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You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

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WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

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WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

4.8 · 58 votes · 177 reads

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