Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 443 Oppression quotesOppression QuotesOppression Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The newspaper announced that the mission of the Red Guards was to rid the country of the ‘Four Olds’: old culture, old customs, old habits, and old ways of thinking. There was no clear definition of ‘old’; it was left to the Red Guards to decide. First of all, they changed street names.~ Nien Cheng To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.~ Dr. G. Brock Chisolm The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic - what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world.~ Joseph H. Choate We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.~ Sir Winston Churchill Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.~ Sir Winston Churchill The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.~ Sir Winston Churchill From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.~ Sir Winston Churchill Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed...~ Civil Servants' Year Book There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.~ Frank Clark An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.~ Henry Clay There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.~ William Kingdon Clifford We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...~ Bill Clinton We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...~ Bill Clinton The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.~ Bill Clinton Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.~ Morris R. Cohen Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.~ Henry Steele Commager The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.~ New Hampshire Constitution Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print