Quotes About Silenced

I could write to you, because everything I wanted to say was forbidden. You haunted my dreams, my every waking moment.

As for unmarried women, I have no idea where they are buried. For a very long time, in Korea, no one talked about them.)

All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

We can't talk about Jesus. We can't mention that anymore.

I became the messenger who had to be killed.

My story is one of millions, and the others aren't often told.

The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.

But from the brokenness you are able to hear God with the utmost clarity, because pride and pretense have been silenced. James Emery White

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

Some have the will of a language but lack a mouth.

But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.

What's at the root of this explosive mixture of desire for and hatred of women? Why are aggression and harassment not civil rights or human rights concerns? Why are women silenced? Why isn't there a declared war against such violence, like the war against drugs, terrorism, or crime? The answer is obvious: Violence and fear are instruments of control.

Because he had hardened his soul and silenced his conscience with the excuse of progress

I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them an escape route.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

No, Wright wouldn't like the bird—a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too.

Had Prozac been available last century, Baudelaire's "spleen," Edgar Allan Poe's moods, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the lamentations of so many other poets, everything with a soul would have been silenced. …

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.

I realised that everyone and everything out there had a story, and that most stories would never be told.

Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.

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

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

He absolutely was a coward. A weak coward whose dead had not been avenged, who had no voice, and whose body was nothing even a ten-year-old would envy.