Quotes About Silenced

There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience.

Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off.

There are thoughts we must not think.

Not being able to speak is not the same as not having anything to say.

I used to think that after the war I would have something of interest and significance to tell. A contribution. But people didn't want to hear about it, or if they did listen, it was in a certain pose, an attitude assumed for this special occasion; it was not a partners in a conversation, but as if I had imposed on them and they were graciously indulging me.

The difficulty is that I have no mouth through which I can speak. I can't make myself understood, not in your world, the world of bodies, of tongues and fingers; and most of the time I have no listeners, not on your side of the river. Those of you who may catch the odd whisper, the odd squeak, so easily mistake my words for breezes rustling the dry reeds, for bats at twilight, for bad dreams.

In this country you can say what you like because no one will listen to you anyway

I was shut up inside that doll of myself, and my true voice could not get out.

Noi eravamo la gente di cui non si parlava nei giornali. Vivevamo nei vuoti spazi bianchi ai margini dei fogli e questo ci dava più libertà. Vivevamo tra gli interstizi di storie altrui.

People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.

We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

Twas Morgan's protest and the Mebd silenced her with a glance.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

Words hold tremendous power, and if we don't reclaim our language and start seeing people instead of 'militants,' drone victims instead of 'bug splats,' or natural splendor instead of 'green infrastructure,' then the voiceless are destined to be silenced forever.

It's not the one-half that's never been told; it's the three-quarters.

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

None but the dead have free speech.

El sentimiento asfixiante de que te pisen al hablar. Un hombre poniendo voz de pito para remedarte.

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.

For the first time in America, except during the Civil War and the World War, people were afraid to say whatever came to their tongues.