A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.
But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.
Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.
And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is.
To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.
The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor.
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.
Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law. . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them. '
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor. This imposition, in turn, may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonization by the oppressor's own nationals.
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.
You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.