"Much reading is an oppression of the mind and extinguishes the natural candle," said William Penn, who, despite these views, was enough of a leader to found an entire state.
Mr Hirschman worried that a moderate amount of exit might produce the worst of all worlds: "an oppression of the weak by the incompetent and an exploitation of the poor by the lazy which is the more durable and stifling as it is both unambitious and escapable".
"He was among the civilians who laid out plans, alongside the armed forces, for what was an oppression of the people," said Estela de Carlotto, the president of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights group formed in 1977 that focuses on identifying grandchildren of so-called disappeared people, who were kidnapped and appropriated by military families.
We were free to roam the compound by day and we had books and a radio and we played games of cards and dice, the usual sort of thing, but we were locked in at night, and the cages — though they were roomy enough and each equipped with a toilet, a desk, a couch, and a reading lamp, in addition to a gargantuan steel-frame bed — were an oppression of the spirit.
We were free to roam the compound by day and we had books and a radio and we played games of cards and dice, the usual sort of thing, but we were locked in at night, and the cages though they were roomy enough and each equipped with a toilet, a desk, a couch, and a reading lamp, in addition to a gargantuan steel-frame bed were an oppression of the spirit.
-ORSON WELLES Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
On 19 February 1743, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Dowager Electress Palatine, died of an "oppression on the breast".
We go back to a situation where there's a brutal oppression of the Palestinians and we call that peace.
Andrea Minichiello Williams, the chief executive of Christian Concern, said: "This bill masquerades as compassionate but would quickly become an instrument of oppression of the most vulnerable in society.
Asked to explain, Abdul-Rauf called the American flag a "symbol of oppression, of tyranny".
There's been such a history of oppression of women that goes back way before the burning of witches.
