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Oppress Quotes

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Mahavira
“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.”
― Mahavira
tags: abuse, enslave, ethics, injury, jain, jainism, moral-teaching, morality, oppress, sentient-beings, torment, torture
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Don't be a pepper on the eyes of people; Rather be the salt on their tongue and make a difference that influences their sense of belonging to the earth.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
tags: earth, impact, impress, influence, oppress, pepper, salt
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Israelmore Ayivor
“How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
tags: behaviour, character, food-for-thought, human-behaviour, impress, impression, impressive, israelmore-ayivor, oppress, oppression, who-you-are
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Murray N. Rothbard
“It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.”
― murray rothbard
tags: assets, force, government, governments, guns, libertarian, liberty, money, oppress, oppression, resistance, rob, robber, state, steal, stealing, tax, taxes, theft, thievery, violence, wealth
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
tags: anger, compress, depress, don-t-hate-yourself, food-for-thought, forgiveness, free, freedom, glad, happiness, happy, hatred, impress, impression, impressive, imprison, israelmore-ayivor, liberate, liberation, liberty, oppress, oppression, sad, self, self-hatred, self-imprisonment, self-liberation, suppress, suppression, unhappy, yourself
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“The more you oppress
the more they distress
and the more they protest
the more you detest.”
― Aram Seriteratai
tags: detest, distress, oppress, protest
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“Little Maiden Encounters Fear

Deepest regions walked she there
little maiden sweet and fair
ventured far from the path
never a whisper
never a laugh...”
― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
tags: absorbed, battle, brotherhood, challenge, chase, consumed, danger, devil, disguise, eerie, evil, fairytale, faith, fantasy, fear, female-warrior, fight, friends, friendship, hidden, hope, oppress, oppression, over-powered, overcome, poem, poetry, prose, resolve, savior, saviour, scary, sisterhood, spirit, taken, victory, warrior, woodland, woods
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Aleister Crowley
“Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress.”
― Aleister Crowley
tags: control, fascism, fascist, government, law, oppress, politics, power, state, suppress
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
tags: food-for-thought, impact, impress, impression, impressions, impressive, influence, israelmore-ayivor, life, oppress, person, real-life, real-person
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Do well to impress; don't depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
tags: depress, despise, food-for-thought, impress, impression, inspirations, inspire, israelmore-ayivor, motivate, motivations, oppress, oppression, soul, suppress, suppression
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Anthony Liccione
“Not only are you what you eat, but you also can be what's eating you. Don't become your problems or let them overtake you.”
― Anthony Liccione
tags: become, eat, encumber, exhaust, laden, load, oppress, overburden, overtake, overwhelm, problems, weaken, weigh-down
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Jim George
“God condemns those who oppress and take advantage of others.”
― Jim George
tags: advantage, blessed, christian, condemn, god, oppress, right
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Israelmore Ayivor
“People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: bad, castle, castles, dungeon, dungeons, edifice, edifices, food-for-thought, gain, gainful, gains, good, good-or-bad, heal, impress, impression, israelmore-ayivor, kill, lead-people, leader, leaders, leadership, manipulate, manipulations, manipulator, manipulators, mislead, misleader, misleaders, oppress, oppression, oppressive, oppressor, oppressors, pain, pain-and-gain, painful, pains, people, personal-development, push, self-improvement, vice, vices, virtue, virtues
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Anthony Liccione
“They were shiny, shiny people that were bright like light bulbs, but there I stood out like a sore thumb, my dimness flickering self, and they saw it and removed themselves from me, forming their circle of light. Until the night died, they never noticed when the sun broke open its skull of rays, where I laid by the stop sign.”
― Anthony Liccione
tags: bullying, circle, die, dimness, friends, hurt, ignore, isolation, lonliness, oppress, people, shiny, society, unwelcome
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Farah Naz Rishi
“Honey, I've lived long enough to know that begging your oppressors to spare you never works. You either fight back, or remind the ones you love there’s something still worth fighting for.”
― Farah Naz Rishi
tags: beg, fight, fight-back, oppress, oppression
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Aleister Crowley
“Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress." (Crowley quote from book Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, by Lawrence Sutin.)”
― Aleister Crowley
tags: control, fascism, fascist, government, law, oppress, politics, power, state, suppress
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“Religion is a bludgeon in the hand of the oppressor to suppress the oppressed”
― Jahanshah Safari
tags: bludgeon, dalit, oppress, oppression, oppressor, religion, subaltern-workers
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“Do not oppress orphans,”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
tags: oppress, orphans, wise-thoughts
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“Do not oppress the foreigners living in your land. Always, remember that you will be a foreigner when you travel to another land.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
tags: foreigner, foreigners, land, nations, oppress, travel, wise-sayings
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“Do not oppress orphans.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
tags: oppress, orphans, wise-words
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“Why do you oppress your own people?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
tags: inspiring, oppress, people
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