Oppressive Language Quotes

#1. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Toni Morrison

#2. 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

#3. Love testing yourself more than fearing loosing

Ron Clarke

#4. Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

Gil Fronsdal

#5. Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

Kerstin Gier

#6. Faith itself has no merit; in fact, by its nature it is self-emptying. It involves our complete renunciation of any confidence in our own righteousness and a relying entirely on the perfect righteousness and death of Christ.

Jerry Bridges

#7. It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed ...

Minette Walters

#8. In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

John Sulston

#9. What you are looking for is what you are looking with.

Ernest Holmes

#10. I haven't slept with him, Mom." I whispered, lying through my teeth. I just didn't want to discuss my sex life with her. She would probably critique my oral skills or something.
"I should have known. You don't sleep with anybody. That's why you can't keep a man.

L.D. Davis

#11. Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#12. I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

Jesse McCartney

#13. Judging itself brings the pain of being judged. The wicked judge mistakes this for another crime of the accused and lengthens his sentence.

James Richardson

#14. Leibniz thought that if we had a sufficiently logical notation, dispute and confusion would cease, and men would sit together and resolve their disputes by calculation.

Simon Blackburn

#15. My inbox is the enemy.

Glenn Greenwald

#16. Being spiritual-but-nonreligious sounds good in theory - at least it's better than attending antiquated religious institutions. We can do that. And we have. A growing number of us identify as spiritual-but-nonreligious.

Gudjon Bergmann