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Oppression Quotes
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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history. (Quote by - A. J. P. Taylor)
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. (Quote by - George Orwell)
We find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another. (Quote by - Simmons v. U.S.)
When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Do you think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power the government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. (Quote by - Bible)
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing. (Quote by - Oliver Tambo)
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted. (Quote by - Margaret Sanger)
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. (Quote by - A. Whitney Griswold)
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)