Oppression Quotes - Page 40

• The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I never thought of the depth of losing your freedom and what that meant. And I was surprised and delighted by ways people maintain their humanity and try to survive.

  Jenji Kohan

  People, Humanity, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.

  Robert Conquest

  Zero, Struggle, Games

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• Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.

  George Steiner

  Training, Technique, Literacy

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• Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

  Ken Wilber

  Social, Form, Social Power

  Ken Wilber (2003). “Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free!”, p.193, Shambhala Publications

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• Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

  Luke Treadaway

  Growing Up, Small Villages, Danger

  "Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Age, Politics

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

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• Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in America and never, ever will be!

  Donald Trump

  America, Hatred, Violence

  Source: time.com

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• Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in a way. I never found this oppression of religion and that, but I did enjoy growing up in a culture that didn't need to be rational all of the time.

  Neil Jordan

  Growing Up, Culture, Wonderful

  Source: film.avclub.com

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