H.N.Ellessy quote: "There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves for they will justify all means of self-preservation, including persecution and oppression of others, to the extent of, and worse than that which they had endured. This will weigh heavily on the souls of future generations."

There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify a...
H. N. ELLESSY

It means understanding that different kinds of oppression are interlinked, and that one can't libera...
SHIRI EISNER

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
There are worse things than the...
FLEUR ADCOCK

Sometimes the shackles of oneself are worse than those of others.
AHMED MOSTAFA

There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
C. JOYBELL C.

I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of t...
ANONYMOUS

That assumption is based on if there are no further rains; if there are further rains, the situation...
BASIL FERNANDEZ

It's worse than that. Those people who wanted to round pi to 3.2 were stupid. These people [the oppo...
CHARLES MUNGER

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
JEAN ROSTAND

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is ...
THOMAS SZASZ

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

Anyone who is passionate about what they do will have a better chance of connecting with future gene...
GIORGIO ARMANI

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for our...
WILLIAM JAMES

Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life than ...
JILL CONNER BROWNE

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will;...
C.S. LEWIS

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by t...
BLAISE PASCAL

Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrif...
WILLIAM LAW

And slay them (the infidels) wherever you catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned ...
QURAN

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by t...
BLAISE PASCAL

For better or worse, pessimism without compromise lacks public appeal. In all, the few who have gone...
THOMAS LIGOTTI

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the P...
ALICE HAMILTON

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power- power to op...
ERIC HOFFER

… many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as the...
TERRY GOODKIND

There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that -- they are utter failures.
WENDY WRIGHT

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for ...
PAULO FREIRE

Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching ...
CAROLEE DEAN

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say ...
AUGUSTE RODIN

Nobody knows the full extent of the damage, ... The speculation is that it will be worse than Ivan, ...
MARSHALL STEEVES

Nobody knows the full extent of the damage. The speculation is that it will be worse than Ivan, but ...
MARSHALL STEEVES

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PLATO

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they ...
WALTER WINCHELL

There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have ...
BETH DITTO

There are certainly more teams that are in the pool for consideration than any year I've been involv...
BOB BOWLSBY

Those who have not and wish they had, are those who proclaim the battle cry of dictators, communists...
WILLIAM J DAGER

Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They ten...
KURT VONNEGUT

This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and...
PAULO FREIRE

This probe will reveal whether Poland had to change its banking sector this way over the last 17 yea...
PRZEMYSLAW GOSIEWSKI

Immigrants have been coming to our shores for generations to live the dream that is America. They wa...
NIKKI HALEY

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say ''thus it shall be!'', it is they who...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, t...
MARCEL PAGNOL

The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that others do...
J.K. ROWLING

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past
IRISH BLESSINGS

Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are real...
EDWARD ABBEY

We've always been the kind of people who like to help others. Now, it has been just one thing after ...
DEBRA GILL

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse t...
DANIEL BERRIGAN

They were just running wild all over the property. It was worse than anything I have seen, worse tha...
ANNIE STETLER

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than...
FRANCIS BACON

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than...
FRANCIS BACON, SR.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than...
FRANCIS BACON SR.

I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse th...
EMILY BRONTë

Things keep happening all around you. There is violence, there is gore, there are people who will us...
HEEMA SHIRVAIKAR

Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings...
TIMOTHY NOAH

I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of...
KHALED HOSSEINI

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
WILLIAM JAMES

On our campuses where there is no tolerance for it, we have no problem. Unfortunately, looking at th...
GAYLE FALLON

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

We have to address the unique nature of crimes motivated by bias. Not that they are worse than a dif...
REP. DAVID LITVACK

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes...
PAULO FREIRE

There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having surviv...
ROMEO DALLAIRE

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I...
ALBERT CAMUS

Don't hate the bullies. Experience tells me that hating them, or being angry with them, will always ...
DAN PEARCE

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it
JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
M. SCOTT PECK

Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those...
SAINT IGNATIUS

American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless the...
REZA ASLAN

We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w...
TOM ALTHOUSE

Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The wor...
TATYANA TOLSTAYA

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is...
LORD ACTON

I am the One, and I see all.
But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are a...
DEAN KOONTZ

I wish people would not use him as a means to justify criticism of Damien Hirst and others. There is...
KAREN WRIGHT

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
VIRGIL

Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE

All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.
JAMES T. FARRELL

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at a...
JEAN GENET

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacri...
CRISS JAMI

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT

Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of co...
WARREN FARRELL

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overco...
PAULO COELHO

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe...
QUENTIN CRISP

Only the artistic will to transform the future into a space of unlimited art-elevating chances enabl...
PETER SLOTERDIJK

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but und...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

This one is much worse than 1995 and there is more of this to go.
DAVID MCWILLIAMS

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.
BRIAN PENN

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAG

People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared ...
LA'PORSHA RENAE

There is no honor from this leadership, no class, no integrity, ... It's very hard for all of us who...
MELISSA GILBERT

There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves for they will justify all means of self-preservation, including persecution and oppression of others, to the extent of, and worse than that which they had endured. This will weigh heavily on the souls of future generations.

H.N.Ellessy

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