#repressive

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#endure #exception #regimes #repressive #venezuela

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#instrument #into #liberty #made #powerful

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#dumb #first #i #piano #repressive

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#constant #direction #generally #governments #headed

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. ↗

— Simone Weil

#hideous #justice #modern #modern society #more

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#america #arab #arab countries #countries #difference

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade. ↗

— Barney Frank

#approach #ask #bin #brutal #did

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#government #i #nicaragua #often #policies

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#laws #must #people #protect #repressive

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#horrible #i #just #made #me