Oppression of the Weak Quotes

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress

This case serves as an appalling reminder of the evils that result when large numbers of the politically powerless are placed at the mercy of institutions engendered and controlled by a politically powerful few.

As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult and tyrannize over little people; this being the means which they use to recompense themselves for their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors; for nothing can be more reasonable than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them which they themselves pay to all above them.

... of oppression, international murder and plunder ... [of a] sick and dying empire.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Repression or oppression never yet succeeded in crushing the truth or redressing a wrong.

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

The State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal.

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

those who are considered clerics, grown fat on the alms of princes, now oppress princes' sons....

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.