Quotes About Silenced

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

It was surprising to consider that in fact there were signs, that is the embers of a voice destroyed by fire.

Cattle had no vote, nor the words to express a view, but their feelings ranked above just about everything else in the country.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless,'" Arundhati Roy has said. "There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

He was just one more demonstration of the fact that when the messenger was not actually shot, he or she was in other ways silenced as much as possible.1 But throughout the first decade of the century it was the early-warning sirens on blasphemy

Un esclavo es aquel que no puede expresar su pensamiento.

Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out.

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered.

Porque hay una historia que no está en la historia y que solo se puede rescatar aguzando el oído y escuchando los susurros de las mujeres.

Like all the parts of the Gulf War we didn't see on TV, parts that were never reported.

To forget and to repress would be a good solution if there were no more to it than that. But repressed pain blocks emotional life and leads to physical symptoms. And the worst thing is that although the feelings of the abused child have been silenced at the point of origin, that is, in the presence of those who caused the pain, they find their voice when the battered child has children of his own.

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.

Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.

I like the idea of a motto," she goes on. "I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times." "Like what?" asks Gat. Mirren pauses. Then she says: "Be a little kinder than you have to." We are all silenced by that. It seems impossible to argue with.

It was as if she had once been almost smothered and then allowed to live only if she limited her vocabulary and breathed hardly at all.

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.

Loud critics are silenced by loud success.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

The words we did not shout, the tears unshed, the curse we swallowed, the phrase we shortened, the love we killed, turned into magnetic iron ore, into tourmaline, into pyrite agate, blood congealed into cinnabar, blood calcinated, leadened into galena, oxidized, aluminized, sulphated, calcinated, the mineral glow of dead meteors and exhausted suns in the forest of dead trees and dead desires.

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.