Oppresive Quotes

#1. Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government ... can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

George Washington

#2. No Executive can value the worth of others unless he first learns to value himself

John M. Capozzi

#3. IT'S EASY TO JUMP WHEN YOU GET PUSHED.

Bethany Neal

#4. To survive a family must present an unbroken front to the world.

Margaret Mitchell

#5. I set fire to his bed one night while he was in it. I'd be obliged if you wouldn't mention that, though, as they never found out who did it, but the police got involved and things were rather unpleasant at school for a while.

Clara Benson

#6. No matter how many indigested actions a female appears to exhibit to the male psyche, she is still a woman. She's the specialty of the house. However she doesn't come at a sale price. Considering her value, a woman is one of the best deals life has to offer.

Will Leamon

#7. What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.

Eyvind Kang

#8. I think one year I was responsible for 163 screen deaths. That was a pretty good year for me, although it seems better than it actually was at a glance; 72 of those deaths were accounted for in one show.

Anthony Zerbe

#9. When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#10. Writers, naturally, dream of becoming authors. Authors dream of writing a bestseller. Bestselling authors want to write more bestsellers. And everyone hopes for big prizes. Why? Because we believe in magic. Publisher's Weekly magazine, Dec. 12, 2011

Amy Hill Hearth

#11. I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.

Robin Williams

#12. There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

Ellen Page

#13. The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in
proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#14. I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.

Selena