Simone de Beauvoir Quotes About Oppression

Quotes about: Oppression

• All oppression creates a state of war.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  War, Historical, Oppression

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

• Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Men, Giving

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.47, Open Road Media

• Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Trying, Oppression, Utility

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.47, Open Road Media

• Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Quality, Oppression, Feminine

• Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Christian, Littles, Oppression

  Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”

• There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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