“ Nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 2K
“ There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 687
“ Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. ”
- Martha Beck- Copy
- 719
“ Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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- Copy
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“ We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive. ”
- James Hillman- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I suppose the mindset for a band show is more that you overpower the audience. That sounds rather totalitarian, doesn't it? ”
- Richard Thompson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. ”
- Judd Gregg- Copy
- 1.4K
“ It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest. ”
- John Lydon Rotten- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. ”
- Mortimer Adler- Copy
- 619
“ Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. ”
- Mortimer J. Adler- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. ”
- Abigail Adams- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. ”
- Maximilien Robespierre- Copy
- 3.6K
“ To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. ”
- Henry George- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 1.7K
“ There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. ”
- Milton Friedman- Copy
- 541
“ I was very much a daddy's girl, and was pretty tyrannical when he was sleeping. If I could get into trouble, I would. I didn't have a lot of respect for those people because I saw a lot of debauchery and decadence going on. People trying to hid it from me, but I was onto them. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
- 194
“ The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. ”
- Jonathan Miller- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 692
“ There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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