#oppressive

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#big #defeat #hands #help #information

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#also #democracy #expression #freedom #freedom of expression

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#illogical #oppressive #our #revenues #surplus

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#government #nothing #oppressive #out #turns

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. ↗

— Confucius

#government #more #oppressive #than #tiger

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#government #industrial #monopolies #must #oligarchy

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive. ↗

— James Hillman

#oppressive #will #work #world

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#experience #go #got #i #i think

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#been #born #disobedience #having #i

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#between #citizens #complicated #experience #fabric