Quotes About Oppression And Rebellion

#1. Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

Thomas Hobbes

#2. Hatred of oppression still distorts the features,
Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly.
Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness,
Could never be friendly ourselves.

Bertolt Brecht

#3. A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.

T.C. Boyle

#4. Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Anthony Hope

#5. I've seen productions where it feels like the actors are just tired and want to go home. That is one of the challenges doing theater - especially a long production - how to keep it alive for yourself and the audience.

Gillian Anderson

#6. All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.

Paul Oakenfold

#7. The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

Mason Cooley

#8. I love 'Saturday Live' with Fi Glover. I find that very relaxing.

Jasmine Guinness

#9. 1. God hears the cry of the oppressed. He even hears the cries of those whose oppression is a result of sin and rebellion.

Beth Moore

#10. I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.

Sergio Martinez

#11. Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.

George Herbert

#12. Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.

Ami McKay

#14. ...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

Roger Casement

#15. It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?"

Atticus Shaffer

#16. She never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings - which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.

L.M. Montgomery

#17. I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.

Lu T'ung

#18. If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.

Isobelle Carmody