66 quotes found
“The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided and controlled by those with superior authority.”
“Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.”
“Sometimes, the anger built up so much that people had to scream out their treasonous thoughts just to keep on breathing. Maybe not all of the were really crazy, but it was best for everyone involve...”
“Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it...”
“Christie: Even if he is arent you the one whos always saying we shouldnt trust the wealthy, that they became that way by walking on the backs of the poor?”
“Its not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?”
“In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!”
“The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark su...”
“What is a bird if it can't fly? It might as well be a cockroach.”
“Christmas has become a public affirmation of the power and benignity of the state, to which we all make obeisance in the sybolism of the breath test ceremony.”
“[T]he mothers who had sold their children felt empty and sad. They felt as if this act, done freely by themselves (no one had forced them, no one had threatened them) had not been performed willing...”
“When you have a hammer in your hand, everything around you starts looking like a nail.”
“When free men stand, they will always carry on and lift Liberty yet unfree men shall always struggle to fight for freedom and liberty until they attain it.”
“All oppression creates a state of war.”
“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to und...”
“One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and, besides, the social treatment accorded even the most suc...”
“We preach revolution but whine about the oppression in the name of change”
“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.”
“We do not require man’s religion for salvation. We do not believe in anything that forces people to keep their places in this world.”
“Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.”
