Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Terrence McNally

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.

Andrew Bernstein

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Andrew Solomon

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Anna Sewell

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Thomas Paine

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

Simone Weil

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

Victor Hugo

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Elaine Gower

There was feces at least 3 inches deep throughout house. ... This really moves to a cruelty situation.

Thomas Hardy

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Terry Jones

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

William Blake

Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

William Blake

Cruelty has a human heart, And jealousy a human face Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress

Patrick Stump

As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

Matthew Scully

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Felix Frankfurter

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

Bruce Lahn

If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier.

Li Hongzhi

What I am doing is teaching people to be kind and benevolent, ... It is not politically motivated. I have never interfered with state laws and decrees, nor have I been involved in politics.

Ronnene Harris

They're just there to make your remaining years comfortable. (They are) not there to interfere with God's plan.

Nana Sutresna

This is a purely a bilateral issue between the United States and North Korea. The less people interfere with the problem, I think, the better for the solution.

Jean Brown

We used to live right nearby and it used to interfere with the TV as soon as they switched it on. They could see into Red Square in Moscow.

Ray Tanner

Did he interfere with Widmann? No, but the rule says you have to go straight in and he didn't go straight in.

Vladimir Putin

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

Tim Stewart

Wireless, in my opinion, was not reliable; it could be interfered with by anything.

Alfred Stieglitz

I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

Margrethe II of Denmark

None of my counterparts in Europe interferes in politics.