#oppress

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. ↗

— Anna Sewell

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#free #nation #nations #oppresses #other

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#every #every man #form #gives #government

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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

— Simone Weil

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