Edmund Burke Quotes

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

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

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

Mexicans!... It would appear that justice had fled from this world, leaving you to the caprice of your oppressors, who have become each day more furious toward you.... My part is taken, the voice of revelation whispers ... that the Lord will enable me, with powerful arm, to fight against our enemies.

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

I've always hated oppression.

We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us - not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them