Oppressive Quotes

Work-life balance is not a solution, because it does not prevent work from continuing to be oppressive. - Theodore Zeldin

Work can be challenging enough without oppressive heat and humidity. - Kevin Dugan

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. - Shirin Ebadi

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. - James Hillman

When the hot East Texas summer days begin, the stations will again look to the community to help hundreds of senior citizens and those who are shut in survive the oppressive heat. - Al Ross

When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so. - Adam Beach

When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels. - Paul Goodman

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. - Jimmy Wales

We welcome the opportunity to talk about the threat that Saddam Hussein and his region posed. It was a brutal regime; it was an oppressive regime and the world is better off with him removed from power. - Scott McClellan