Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Simone Beauvoir

Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

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.

Ken Wilber

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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.

Harry Belafonte

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Caitlin Moran

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

Gary Knowles

We are doing it for their own protection. They are subjected to not just violence, but also social diseases.

John Oliver

When he (Shaw) wrote 'Pygmalion,' he was really making a statement about social classes.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Gilles Villeneuve

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Zach Johnson

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

William McDonough

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Herminio Lucci

The outside influence in the form of Argentine auction, which matched expectations, helped the market. And tomorrow's futures expiry weighed slightly, as usual.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

William Gibson

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.