Oppressive Quotes & Sayings
These oppressive quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. - Roland Barthes
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C. S. Lewis
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. - Thomas Jefferson
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. - Peter Ustinov
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. - Henry Louis Mencken
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.' - David Mamet