Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing othe… - Charles Dickens

" "
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Charles Dickens

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Charles Dickens was trying to ban workhouses his whole career.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Birth Name: Charles John Huffam Dickens

Alternative Names: Dickens • Boz • C. Dickens

All quotes from Charles Dickens Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Charles Dickens:

Robert Louis Stevenson George Eliot Charlotte Brontë Harriet Beecher Stowe Nathaniel Hawthorne

Additional quotes by Charles Dickens

He’s tough, ma’am,—tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.

As all partings foreshadow the great final one, - so, empty rooms, bereft of a familiar presence, mournfully whisper what your room and what mine must one day be.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. - Charles Dickens

About Charles Dickens

Also Known As

Advanced Search Filters

Additional quotes by Charles Dickens