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Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.
Partitions and cubicles can be oppressive. They are so boring.
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Fidel's oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
Russia isn't only oppressive toward gay people, it is hard on everyone, particularly women.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
Light-skinned privilege is largely through a white lens. It is exploited by oppressive forces... It was always a facade.
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
I like the experience being in the audience and being overwhelmed by sound, like thick, oppressive loud sound and distortion.
Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the Internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating.
Unilateral sanctions on Cuba have been oppressive and largely ineffective, and that's why the public largely supports lifting them.
I myself hate the communist North Korean system. That doesn't mean I should let the people in the North suffer under an oppressive regime.
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
Amazon's outsized power is looking less and less like smart business and more and more like oppressive politics - one company bullying us all.
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
I know my kids best. I know what morals and values are right for my children. I think we should not have an oppressive state telling us what to do.
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.
Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.
Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
The rude, raw, 'let it all hang out' freedom of the Californian hippies was in fact the most censorious and oppressive of societies that I have encountered.
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying to direct a revolution.
To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.
Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.
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.
Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.
Feminists declare that men and women are equal in all respects. They petulantly decry any atavistic male courtesy towards females as a relic of a still oppressive patriarchal culture.