#oppressive

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

— Henry A. Wallace

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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. ↗

— James Madison

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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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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

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People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Confucius

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Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#forcibly #immoral #oppressive #person #rate

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

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