Quotes About Silenced

No," I agreed dryly. "I don't suppose he'd have been pleased, no matter what you said." "He wasn't. He backhanded me across the mouth, to shut me up.

Traditions] give voice to what in some sense we already know, but inarticulately. When tradition is silenced, people have to work all these things out for themselves - and that is impossible.

Christine Keeler was not allowed a voice. There were so many men who were imposing their views and opinions onto her and they decided who she was. Christine never had the opportunity to truly give her side of the story.

Violence is the language of the unheard.

Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

The Fourth Symphony, one of his most fascinating and ingenious works, both brutal and intricate, would go unheard for a quarter of a century, silenced by fear.

I will not be silenced on my own island.

No sooner had Moray received a transcript of this confession than poor Paris was silenced forever.

Can't say or do anything without being judged. Ooohhh but your opinion wasn't asked for, bi....

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

Heterosexuality is not a neutral science and the inner logic of the system works with its own artificially created 'either/or' concepts. It unifies the ambivalence of life into one official version. Per/versions (the different versions of a road) are silenced.

denne tilbageholdte kraft, der var lagt i lænker og havde fået mundkurv på, og som hele tiden lå og murrede inde i mig som et uvejr, var den bedste næring for tingen.

Alle de ting eksisterede ikke, eftersom man ikke havde lov til at bruge de ord, der betegnede dem. De var allesammen uden værdi. De kunne allesammen til nød være latterlige, altså genstande for hånlige og ligegyldige morsomheder.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

SOMEONE AsKED ME: SO, WHY DO U Like Him SO MUCH? BUT BEFORE I COULD EVEN REPLY; MY BEST Friend PUT HER HAND OVER MY MOUTH AND Said: DON'T EVEN GET HER STARTED

Loud critics are silenced by loud success.

She tried to shriek for help, to cry out against the blinding agony, but her mouth wouldn't open. The scream stalled in her throat and she gagged. Oh my God. She couldn't move her lips. She couldn't say one word.