Oppressive
Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.
Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands.
Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.
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Oppressive Quotations
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Thomas Jefferson
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
Herbert Spencer
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
James Madison
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
Henry A. Wallace
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
Peter Ustinov
We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.
James Hillman
Oppressive Translations
oppressive in French is vexatoire
oppressive in Italian is premente
oppressive in Spanish is opresor
oppressive in Swedish is tryckande
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