#oppressive

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#also #democracy #expression #freedom #freedom of expression

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#finally #forms #government #grow #must

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#illogical #oppressive #our #revenues #surplus

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#government #nothing #oppressive #out #turns

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. ↗

— Confucius

#government #more #oppressive #than #tiger

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#government #industrial #monopolies #must #oligarchy

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#america #arab #arab countries #countries #difference

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#forcibly #immoral #oppressive #person #rate

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive. ↗

— James Hillman

#oppressive #will #work #world

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

#classification #code #forget #language #legislation