Quotes About Silencing

According to Dr. Hartling, in order to deal with shame, some of us move away by withdrawing, hiding, silencing ourselves, and keeping secrets. Some of us move toward by seeking to appease and please. And, some of us move against by trying to gain power over others, by being aggressive, and by using shame to fight shame (like sending really mean e-mails).

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Co to takiego – je?li kto? zaczyna rozmow?, musi si? to bezwzgl?dnie zako?czy? aresztowaniem?

the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in "its collision with error.

I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.

Real silencing occurs when a conservative tries to speak at a liberal university like Berkeley, and the party of anger and violence acts on their hatred when a police department says we can't protect a Republican speaker.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Some men are just disgusted with me and think I should have my mouth sewn shut.

Assassination: the extreme form of censorship.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Johanna, frankly, I could easily kill if it came down to protecting Peeta. Or maybe even just to shut her up.

She was sent to the scaffold because she had a sharper tongue and a shrewder mind than her accusers. It is always the case when men hang women.

Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon—everything belonged to the men who had the guns

I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens the sound of its firing. Now, even when I yell, I don't feel like I am using my full voice.

Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

It's a fine line, but one that can, and must, be walked. Calling attention to, challenging, and educating the public about objectionable ideas or people is a fundamental necessity in our society. When we begin, however, to demand the silencing of someone because we're offended by his or her opinion, we've crossed the line.

Think about it: If you were publicly branded a racist on an issue of public debate, might you not next time hesitate to speak out, write your elected representatives or go to a meeting? That's a chilling effect - and undermines the First Amendment.

By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.

I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have a problem with that.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.' George Bernard Shaw

Other ayatollahs considered the female voice arousing and barred women from speaking in mixed gatherings unless they first put a stone in their mouths to distort the sound. Khomeini,

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.

Censorship offends me.