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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

People of similar political persuasions tend to flock together.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.