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1. ” Remember that these are people who use power and strength and force to oppress people and get richer and richer off of the oppression of the poor
2. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it
3. By granting them the farm of their own town in fee, he took away from those whom he wished to have for his friends, and, if one may say so, for his allies, all ground of jealousy and suspicion, that he was ever afterwards to oppress them, either by raising the farm-rent of their town, or by granting it to some other farmer
4. It was probably in imitation of them, and to put themselves upon a level with those who, they found, were disposed to oppress them, that the country gentlemen and farmers of Great Britain so far forgot the generosity which is natural to their station, as to demand the exclusive privilege of supplying their countrymen with corn and butcher's meat
5. It was about the same time that the French and English began mutually to oppress each other's industry, by the like duties and prohibitions, of which the French, however, seem to have set the first example, The spirit of hostility which has subsisted between the two nations ever since, has hitherto hindered them from being moderated on either side
6. In other countries, rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one ; but in new colonies, the interest of the two superior orders obliges them to treat the inferior one with more generosity and humanity, at least where that inferior one is not in a state of slavery
7. But the Dutch government soon began to oppress the Portuguese colonists, who, instead of amusing themselves with complaints, took arms against their new masters, and by their own valour and resolution, with the connivance, indeed, but without any avowed assistance from the mother country, drove them out of Brazil
8. The sovereign himself can never have either interest or inclination to pervert the order of justice, or to oppress the great body of the people
9. In such circumstances, to prohibit the servants of the company from trading upon their own account, can have scarce any other effect than to enable its superior servants, under pretence of executing their master's order, to oppress such of the inferior ones as have had the misfortune to fall under their displeasure
10. }and it is from ignorance chiefly, and the meanness of mercantile prejudice, that they ever oppress it
11. The object, besides, of the greater part of the bye-laws of all regulated companies, as well as of all other corporations, is not so much to oppress those who are already members, as to discourage others from becoming so; which may be done, not only by a high fine, but by many other contrivances
12. All the invidious restraints which at present oppress the trade of Ireland, the distinction between the enumerated and non-enumerated commodities of America, would be entirely at an end
13. 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?
14. 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the Earth may no more oppress
15. The Khanate does not oppress or tax heavily and they give us all peace, safety, and even protection from natural disasters
16. truth to those who are sent to you? Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted at the gates, because the Lord
17. their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them
18. 8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel, and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land
19. 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress
20. 1 Hear this word, you cattle of Bashan, who are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to
21. and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside
22. 10 Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged
23. 2 For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation; they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness, and
24. speaking out against those that misuse or abuse their power to oppress others; and
25. nor to oppress him who has gotten the victory
26. Grecians did oppress Israel with servitude
27. As for the spirits of Heaven, in Heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the Earth which were born on the Earth, on the Earth shall be their dwelling; And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the Earth, and cause trouble; they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and cause offences; And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them
28. And their hands commit lawless deeds; And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress; yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of Spirits, And they shall be banished from off the face of His Earth; And they shall perish forever and ever; For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding there and preparing all the instruments of Satan; And I asked the angel of peace who went with me: 'For whom are they preparing these Instruments?' And he said to me; 'They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this Earth, So that they may thereby be destroyed and after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of his congregation to appear; From now on they shall be no more hindered in the name of the Lord of Spirits; And these mountains shall not stand as the Earth in front of his righteousness; But the hills shall be like a fountain of water; And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners
29. At one end of the scale are institutions that allow people to make their own judgments, at the other end are institutions that allow an elite to rule, dominate, and oppress
30. From from now on know that all your oppression with which you oppress is written down every day till the day of your judgement
31. 9 Now therefore, note, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them
32. 21 you shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt
33. 9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for you know the heart of a stranger, seeing you were strangers in the land of Egypt
34. 16 He shall dwell with you, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of your gates, where he likes it best: you shall not oppress him
35. 14 You shall not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brethren, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:
36. 12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand
37. 9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger,
38. As for the spirits of Heaven in Heaven shall be their dwelling but as for the spirits of the Earth which were born on the Earth on the Earth shall be their dwelling; And the spirits of the giants afflict oppress destroy attack do battle and work destruction on the Earth and cause trouble; they take no food but nevertheless hunger and thirst and cause offences; And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women because they have proceeded from them
39. And their hands commit lawless deeds; And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly oppress; yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of Spirits And they shall be banished from off the face of His Earth; And they shall perish forever and ever; For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding there and preparing all the instruments of Satan; And I asked the angel of peace who went with me: 'For whom are they preparing these Instruments?' And he said to me; 'They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this Earth So that they may thereby be destroyed and after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of his congregation to appear; From now on they shall be no more hindered in the name of the Lord of Spirits; And these mountains shall not stand as the Earth in front of his righteousness; But the hills shall be like a fountain of water; and the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners
40. From now on know that all your oppression with which you oppress is written down every day till the day of your judgement
41. 43 But the day of doom shall be the end of this time and the beginning of the immortality for to come in which corruption is past 44 Intemperance is at an end infidelity is cut off righteousness is grown and truth is sprung up; 45 Then shall no man be able to save him who is destroyed nor to oppress him who has gotten the victory
42. 17 In consideration of these things Judas chose Eupolemus the son of John the son of Accos and Jason the son of Eleazar and sent them to Rome to make a league of amity and confederacy with them 18 And to entreat them that they would take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Grecians did oppress Israel with servitude
43. 28 Punish them that oppress us and with pride do us wrong
44. 2 These are they who persecute the good -lovers of a lie not knowing the reward of righteousness not cleaving to the good nor to righteous judgment watching not for the good but for the bad from whom meekness and patience are afar off loving things that are vain following after recompense having no compassion on the needy nor labouring for him that is in trouble not knowing him that made them murderers of children corrupters of the image of God who turn away from him that is in need who oppress him that is in trouble unjust judges of the poor erring in all things
45. men fear them and, if they can, they shun and oppress them
46. Any government that uses this force to harry, cajole, intimidate and oppress individuals is a force for pure evil
47. happened? They too used the 2,000 year old card, the religion card, to oppress and to steal
48. worked with the greedy empires to exploit, to enslave, to oppress and to steal from Jews
49. to occupy lands, to oppress, enslave, exploit, starve, kill, torment, and have created ever
50. They argued that they needed a queen and the countries around them needed to see that they had a queen in order not to try and oppress them
1. · The false belief of men to have all the power to take advantage of women’s weaknesses is the root cause of them feeling oppressed and getting angry
2. er, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by
3. And it is this pride got home—because that neighbor would call to report what of ancestry from which an oppressed or subjugated people he or she saw that child do
4. Those nations will watch as Israel goes from being the persecuted and oppressed to being delivered by God and exalted unto priesthood
5. Nevertheless, and in the privacy of her own salon, she was quite vocal in her support of the poor oppressed victims of foreign dictators and of those unfortunates in far off lands whose lives were devastated by fire, famine and flood
6. salon, she was quite vocal in her support of the poor oppressed
7. The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble
8. the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of
9. needs of the oppressed, then your
10. 7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth;
11. Show me where there have been great injustices in the earth and I will show you a place that is strongly oppressed by the enemy
12. When the word of deliverance was spoken, instead of deliverance, the people became more oppressed
13. that He was greatly oppressed by evil spirits
14. oppressed, and the poor, and take hold of the destiny God has
15. The oppressed had no hope of
16. who has not, in some part of his life, felt himself most cruelly oppressed by this ill-contrived
17. The hides of common cattle have, but within these few years, been put among the enumerated commodities which the plantations can send nowhere but to the mother country ; neither has the commerce of Ireland been in this case oppressed hitherto, in order to support the manufactures of Great Britain
18. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it
19. To divide it was to ruin it, and to expose every part of it to be oppressed and swallowed up by the incursions of its neighbours
20. If, in the hands of a poor cultivator, oppressed with the servitude of villanage, some little stock should accumulate, he would naturally conceal it with great care from his master, to whom it would otherwise have belonged, and take the first opportunity of running away to a town
21. All of them, besides, are oppressed with a numerous race of mendicant friars, whose beggary being not only licensed but consecrated by religion, is a most grievous tax upon the poor people, who are most carefully taught that it is a duty to give, and a very great sin to refuse them their charity
22. It is a proof that something is either bought cheaper or sold dearer than it ought to be, and that some particular class of citizens is more or less oppressed, either by paying more, or by getting less than what is suitable to that equality which ought to take place, and which naturally does take place, among all the different classes of them
23. But if the profits of those who deal in such goods are above their proper level, those goods will be sold dearer than they ought to be, or somewhat above their natural price, and all those engaged in the nearer employments will be more or less oppressed by this high price
24. That which is carried on for the benefit of the poor and the indigent is too often either neglected or oppressed
25. The Happy Marooner seemed somewhat oppressed by the excessive weight, but, with me wading and swimming alongside her, we managed to slosh and splash our way through the waves
26. In l643, in 1645, and in 1661, the clothiers and free traders of the west of England complained of them to parliament, as of monopolists, who confined the trade, and oppressed the manufactures of the country
27. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth
28. If the tax had been considerable, it would have oppressed the small, and forced almost the whole retail trade into the hands of the great dealers
29. In Great Britain, ten millions sterling are annually levied upon less than eight millions of people, without its being possible to say that any particular order is oppressed
30. The people of France, however, it is generally acknowledged, are much more oppressed by taxes than the people of Great Britain
31. By the union with England, the middling and inferior ranks of people in Scotland gained a complete deliverance from the power of an aristocracy, which had always before oppressed them
32. By a union with Great Britain, the greater part of people of all ranks in Ireland would gain an equally complete deliverance from a much more oppressive aristocracy ; an aristocracy not founded, like that of Scotland, in the natural and respectable distinctions of birth and fortune, but in the most odious of all distinctions, those of religious and political prejudices; distinctions which, more than any other, animate both the insolence of the oppressors, and the hatred and indignation of the oppressed, and which commonly render the inhabitants of the same country more hostile to one another than those of different countries ever are
33. The soldier spun around and straight into a fatal right hook, the neck snapping cracked through the oppressed air
34. The Soviet Empire‘s pre-meditated attempt (and subsequent failure) at eliminating all vestiges of God from the hearts and minds of its oppressed subjects offers some glimmer of hope in America‘s own internal struggles with anti-religious forces who, in a similar manner, are avidly seeking to promote a Secularist Agenda by advancing legislation aimed at removing religious symbols and displays from public forums and driving them underground where it is hoped such forms will one day be lost on future generations otherwise lacking the necessary (spiritual) predicates and values formerly derived by enlightened examples that, for centuries, provided structure and moral sustenance and meaning to religious thought
35. Ian O‘Connor, champion of the oppressed and self-styled Stephen Vincent Benet of the Gannett sports pages, might have properly considered a career more in line with the principles of serious journalism rather than (seemingly) wasting his ―enormous‖ literary talents and high-minded idealism as a sports columnist
36. It has given hope to many an oppressed citizen
37. Wallace would take the side of oppressed people suffering under the failing British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese empires
38. You will not be handed any real measure of authority and yes, the people will continue to be oppressed as you put it, until I deem otherwise
39. And the oppressed think that it's long overdue
40. Something to remind the more daring souls that they were being oppressed, hunted down, that their lives used as oil for a ruthless machine
41. 22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz
42. I am sure she meant them as a threat, and a feeble one, but it rings in my head like it was something more—like she could easily have been talking not about the Amity, but about another oppressed group
43. house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing; And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time
44. Cortez enrolled into his army the men of these disgruntled and oppressed tribal states—states weary of the Aztec slavers and tax collectors
45. 19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he built not;
46. 9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble
47. 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the Earth may no more oppress
48. The Mongols did not integrate with the Hanjen, but always treated them as inferiors to be despised and oppressed
49. 7 Which executes judgment for the oppressed: who gives food to the hungry
50. 1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and see the tears of such as were oppressed, and they
1. “Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me; fighting all day long he oppresses me (Psalm 56:1)
2. He who oppresses the poor
3. The difference between the genius of the British constitution, which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in
4. When a landed nation on the contrary, oppresses, either by high duties or by prohibitions, the trade of foreign nations, it necessarily hurts its own interest in two different ways
5. It neither favours the great, nor oppresses the smaller dealer
6. the bones; he who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker; but he who honours him has mercy on the poor; the wicked is driven
7. fall into it; foolishness is tied into the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him; he who oppresses the poor
8. The poor man who oppresses the
9. But instead, he oppresses them
10. beings as Persons, no longer endowed with phallic power that oppresses and
11. That’s why a bad thought oppresses
12. Bombarding people with incessant whines for help and complaints of lack oppresses them with fear, impotence and panic
13. He oppresses the weak who are under his leadership (his brothers, his students, or his workers), and inclines to harm all of the animals, especially cats, just to oppose God’s messenger’s direction (cpth): “Be kind and generous with the cat (the male and the female)
14. As long as poor people do not realize they are a class… then this nominal success of the exception: the one-in-a-hundred long shot, this belief in random, blind, meaningless luck rather than hard work, this addiction to lotteries, and gambling… this belief in struggling within a system which oppresses them… without tearing down that system to its roots… will keep the billions of poor: Poor forever
15. In short: every authority figure, every evil elite class that oppresses the masses, and stands as an icon of unquestioned respectability
16. Every human who is rich: and oppresses and terrorizes those beneath them into states of abject fear and paranoia and servitude: have something to hide: and are all guilty of committing crimes against humans less powerful and poorer than they are
17. directly supporting the evil that oppresses billions, including yourself
18. This is why the current world system so flagrantly oppresses Africans, Arabs, and other non-
19. "Well," said Beauchamp, "what still oppresses you, my friend?"
20. Nothing oppresses the heart like symmetry
21. "You know that capital oppresses the laborer
22. And so this man, without the least compunction, and without any misgivings as to his being believed, arranges an agricultural exhibition, or a temperance society, or through his wife and children sends jackets and soup to three old women, and in his family, in drawing-rooms, committees, the press, boldly preaches the Gospel or humane love of one's neighbour in general, and of that working agricultural class in particular which he constantly torments and oppresses
23. To live as do the rich, idle people, especially the women, far from nature and from animals, in artificial conditions, with muscles atrophied or misdeveloped by gymnastics, and with enfeebled vital energy, would be impossible were it not for what is called art—for this occupation and amusement which hides from them the meaninglessness of their lives, and saves them from the dullness that oppresses them
24. And these lines occur at the end of a passage in which the king laments the "ceremony" that oppresses him and confesses that but for it he would be "but a man
25. Here are all men free, and none oppresses the others or keeps them in slavery; but money appears in society and immediately an iron law exists, in consequence of which rent increases and wages diminish to the minimum
26. What will result from the circumstance that I, and another, and a third, and a tenth man, do not despise physical labour, but consider it necessary for our happiness, for the calming of our consciences, and for our safety? This will result from it,—that one, two, three, ten men, coming into conflict with no one, without violence either of government or of revolution, will solve for themselves the problem which is before all the world, and which has appeared unsolvable; and they will solve it in such a way that life will become for them a good thing: their consciences will be calm, and the evil which oppresses them will cease to be dreadful to them
27. Where can the necessary supply of cotton be procured? For, thank God! while we are making a sacrifice of that article, it goes to the injury of Great Britain who oppresses us, and whose present importation is not equal to one-half her ordinary consumption
28. The gentleman told you, in speaking of the Maryland elections, that the film is removed from the eyes of the people, and that in discerning their true interests, they saw it was the embargo, and not the Orders in Council, which oppresses them
29. According to the bearings and variations of those lights, should the statesmen of such a country adjust their policy—always bearing in mind two assurances, as fundamental principles of action, which the nature of things teaches, that, although temporary circumstances—party spirit, local rivalries, personal jealousies, suggestions of subordinate interests—may weaken, or even destroy, for a time, the influence of the leading and permanent interests of any great section of the country, yet those interests must ultimately and necessarily predominate, and swallow up all these local, and temporary, and personal, and subordinate considerations; in other words, the minor interests will soon begin to realize the essential connection which exists between their prosperity and the prosperity of those great interests which, in such sections of the country, nature has made predominant; and that no political connection among free States can be lasting, or ought to be, which systematically oppresses, or systematically refuses to protect, the vital interests of any of the sovereignties which compose it
1. oppressing the people of God
2. These little settlements, too, were under the government of an exclusive company, which had the sole right, both of purchasing the surplus produce of the colonies, and of supplying them with such goods of other countries as they wanted, and which, therefore, both in its purchases and sales, had not only the power of oppressing them, but the greatest temptation to do so
3. In such a situation, he would have no occasion to give himself any concern about them, further than to keep the peace among them, in the same manner as among the rest of his subjects, that is, to hinder them from persecuting, abusing, or oppressing one another
4. He also talked to Hilderich about how him and Olom united their efforts with the same purpose of liberating the people first from ignorance and then from the dogmatic yoke of the oppressing Ruling Council, relaying to him how bright and hopeful those times had seemed
5. Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest, for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his
6. 1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! 2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not
7. Then there are the following attendant on these: helping widows looking after orphans and the needy rescuing the servants of God from necessities the being hospitable-for in hospitality good-doing finds a field-never opposing anyone the being quiet having fewer needs than all men reverencing the aged practising righteousness watching the brotherhood bearing insolence being long-suffering encouraging those who are sick in soul not casting those who have fallen into sin from the faith but turning them back and restoring them to peace of mind admonishing sinners not oppressing debtors and the needy and if there are any other actions like these
8. They serve the greedy that have been oppressing, enslaving and exploiting
9. I’m sorry to disclose that the old books report little more than wave after successive wave of malevolent forces who marauded the Regions of Gaea, oppressing and destroying with rampant abandon
10. overthrow these transgressors who were oppressing the people
11. He was faced with the choice to either launch full-scale rebellion and war against the oppressing state, or to give himself as a martyr to the people
12. The sky was dark with dreary clouds hung low with an oppressing feeling about them
13. Pursuing your negative policies based on injustices and denied to equality and by oppressing these people you have dragged them to such pitch that that they have caught you from collar
14. I used to have black dog days, they'd go on for days, but they're actually a spirit of heaviness oppressing me, that I just thought was me - until the day I realised it wasn't me, and began to contend to have dominion over it, so I could live in the presence of the spirit of God
15. “If you are a bad, negative fellow, if a material nature predominates in you, if you try to obtain material goods for yourself at the expense of oppressing others, that is, by harming them, and at the same time you don’t try to change yourself, then you will be in trouble there
16. It seemed to me that nobody would take care of her like me and that without me she would simply fade away from her bad thoughts and the oppressing atmosphere of the ward where all her neighbors just spoke about their diseases
17. The more oppressing patterns you keep in your mind and the more suffering you hold in your heart, the lower will be the integrity of your consciousness
18. Why? Because upsetting any authority whatsoever, no matter how sick, or evil or insane, or oppressing that authority may be: if it is successfully challenged and toppled: then every other authority in the world is threatened also
19. The list goes on and on… from Mexico, to Japan, to the Philippines, to Brazil, to Korea: as banks try desperately to stabilize economies that are run by criminals who are oppressing and impoverishing the poor, ignorant powerless masses who can barely manage to make enough money to get by
20. Besides: by that time: these castle killers spoke a completely different dialect from the poor they had been robbing and oppressing for centuries
21. All in order to hoodwink the masses into loving them… even as they kept on oppressing them and starving them and destroying them by the millions
22. Yet they and all the rest of the human species: still obey their masters, and obey the laws that keep the powerful and the rich oppressing us in their real lives…
23. The Roamin’ Romans who began the insane idea of not only raiding another tribe’s territory… but also oppressing them as absentee landlords
24. Police, law: the justice-killing oppressing machine
25. They are still backwards, raped peasant societies: with powerful robber barons oppressing them, robbing them, and killing them: still aping and copying the tactics of Alexander the Great
26. Franz Ferdinand was also culpable: instead of calling into question the right of imperial monarchs to rule as literal gods, the archduke chose to turn the corrupt chance of becoming emperor into a show of power, a military show of force to the Serbs that he was oppressing and taxing into starvation, into a private family reunion with his wife and children
27. He was not the one oppressing the Serbs
28. could be solved by casting out the demons oppressing or possessing them
29. “To the oppressing city
30. People in the industrialised West liked to accuse other cultures of oppressing their womenfolk, but Western society could be just as oppressive
31. She felt her eyes opening wider and wider, her fingers and toes twitching nervously, something within oppressing her breathing, while all shapes and sounds seemed in the uncertain half-light to strike her with unaccustomed vividness
32. "We have surrendered to you, but now the Nogays are oppressing us
33. The oppressing sight, and especially the stifling atmosphere, quelled even his energy, and he went from cell to cell, saying nothing but “All right” to the inspector’s remarks about what prisoners there were in each cell
34. Everybody knows this with absolute certainty and with his whole being, and at the same time not only sees all about him the division of men into two castes: one, which is working, is oppressed, in need, in suffering, and the other, idle, oppressing, and living in luxury and pleasure,—he not only sees this, but involuntarily from one side or another takes part in this division of men, which his reason rejects, and he cannot help but suffer from the consciousness of such a contradiction and from participation in it
35. Insensitive people of the higher, the oppressing classes, and those who have drowned their consciences, if they do not suffer from their consciences, suffer from fear and hatred
36. The oppressors cannot stop oppressing, even if they should wish to do so
37. If some men affirm that the liberation from violence, or even its weakening, may be effected, should the oppressed people overthrow the oppressing government by force and substitute a new one for it, a government in which such violence and enslavement would not be necessary, and if some men actually try to do so, they only deceive themselves and others by it, and thus fail to improve men's condition, and even make it worse
38. If there were no men who would be ready at the will of the authorities to torture and kill every person pointed out to them, it could never occur to a landed proprietor to take away from the peasants a forest which had been raised by them, nor to the officials to consider legal the payment to them of salaries, which are collected from the hungry masses, for oppressing them, to say nothing of executing men, or locking them up, or exiling them, because they overthrow the lie and preach the truth
39. Whoever I may be, whether I belong to the well-to-do—the oppressing class—or to the oppressed laboring class, in either case the disadvantages of non-submission are less numerous than the disadvantages of submission, and the advantages of non-submission greater than those of submission
40. All those in authority affirm that their office is required in order that the unprincipled may be hindered from oppressing the innocent, implying thereby that they themselves, being virtuous, are protecting other virtuous men from the malice of the evil-doer
41. In order to convert uncivilized nations who do us no harm, whom we have no motive for oppressing, we ought, above all, to leave them in peace, and act upon them only by our showing them an example of the Christian virtues of patience, meekness, temperance, purity, and brotherly love
42. But science, true science,—such science as would really deserve the respect which is now claimed by the followers of one (the least important) part of science,—is not at all such as this: real science lies in knowing what we should and what we should not believe, in knowing how the associated life of man should and should not be constituted; how to treat sexual relations, how to educate children, how to use the land, how to cultivate it oneself without oppressing other people, how to treat foreigners, how to treat animals, and much more that is important for the life of man
43. I repeat that a man who has money may buy up and monopolise all the corn and kill others by starvation, completely oppressing them, as it has frequently happened before our own eyes on a very large scale
44. How, then, can the necessity of painful, oppressing work be advantageous for men? If the question were only for the advantage of some men without any consideration of the welfare of all, then it might be most advantageous for some men to eat others
45. Yet at the same time everyone sees all round him the division of men into two castes—the one, laboring, oppressed, poor, and suffering, the other idle, oppressing, luxurious, and profligate
46. was Tzar, or when he was killed and Catherine was Tzaritsa in one-half of Russia and Pougachef ruled the other? Which was bad then, and which was good? All men who happen to be in authority assert that their authority is necessary to keep the bad from oppressing the good, assuming that they themselves are the good par excellence, who protect other good people from the bad
47. "To get rid of governmental violence in a society in which all are not true Christians, will only result in the wicked dominating the good and oppressing them with impunity," say the champions of the existing order of things
48. All the revolutions in history are only examples of the more wicked seizing power and oppressing the good
49. To bring under the sway of Christianity savage nations who do not attack us and whom we have therefore no excuse for oppressing, we ought before all things to leave them in peace, and in case we need or wish to enter into closer relations with them, we ought only to influence them by Christian manners and Christian teaching, setting them the example of the Christian virtues of patience, meekness, endurance, purity, brotherhood, and love
50. And so we see this man, without the least trouble of mind or doubt that people will believe in his sincerity, organizing an agricultural exhibition, or a temperance society, or sending some soup and stockings by his wife or children to three old women, and boldly in his family, in drawing rooms, in committees, and in the press, advocating the Gospel or humanitarian doctrine of love for one's neighbor in general and the agricultural laboring population in particular whom he is continually exploiting and oppressing