Quotes About Oppression And Revolution

#1. As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Thomas Sowell

#2. Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash

#3. It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

Che Guevara

#4. And so it began, I thought, the first wave of a revolution against oppression, fought with corn syrup and chocolate.

Chloe Neill

#5. My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#6. Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

Jeff Lynne

#7. We do not believe that capitalism, or any economic system, is the cause of female oppression, nor do we believe that female oppression will disappear as a result of purely economic revolution.

Anne Koedt

#8. My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.

Bruce Oldfield

#9. The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold

John Wilson

#11. The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

Henry George

#12. Also - and many might find this the most motivating factor - couples who share domestic responsibilities have more sex.

Sheryl Sandberg

#13. A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

Kate Millett

#14. People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.

Bob McDonnell

#15. The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.

Ulysses S. Grant

#16. May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!

Joseph Warren

#17. A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. ... I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

William Powell

#18. The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

#19. it has been possible to make the insecurity of human life supportable by belief in unchanging things beyond the reach of calamity - in God, in man's immortal soul, and in the government of the universe by eternal laws of right. Today

Alan W. Watts

#20. Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place ... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

Ron Paul

#21. Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

Mohammad Khatami

#22. The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

Jeannette Walls

#23. The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow.

Bryant McGill

#24. The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

Aysha Taryam

#25. No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.

William Carlos Williams

#26. It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

Thabo Mbeki

#27. He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

Muhammad

#28. I'd been sleeping for twenty-two years. I felt like, for the first time in my life, I was finally conscious. Life was finally happening. I was making it happen. I

Penny Reid

#29. Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

Immanuel Kant

#30. The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.

Azar Nafisi

#31. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

Emma Goldman