#oppress

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#almost #always #consisting #cost #false

The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#any #arab #because #cause #crucial

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#end #feel #feel good #films #go

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. ↗

— Randall Terry

#doing #everyone #eyes #god #law

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#criticism #democracy #oppression #democracy

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#bad people #cruelty #good #good people #oppression

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant. ↗

— Max Weber

#morality-without-religion #oppression #politics #tyranny #religion

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#both #governments #make #mobs #need

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will? ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#countries #exploited #interests #oppressed #same