Quotes About Silencing

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One of the meanings of what is called a victim ( a victim of anything or anyone whatsoever) is precisely to be erased in its meaning as victim. The absolute victim is a victim who cannot even protest. One cannot even identify the victim as victim. He or she cannot even present himself or herself as such. He or she is completely covered by language, annihilated by history, a victim one cannot identify.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

Anyone who silences someone else because they believe the other person's opinion is false assumes infallibility. They must be absolutely certain that they are correct on the matter.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Silencing others when they have a challenging story to share is not a benefit to anyone. More often than anything we silence others not out of concern for them, but out of fear of facing discomfort. Silencing the conversation when difficult things arise is just another way we keep one another down.

The world kept telling her to look away, to pay no attention to an age-old system, in which men thrived and inconvenient women disappeared.

The mind swims laps, memory is cantilevered over genetic turmoil, and the writing goes on as if from unseen instruction, silencing, cleaving, and destabilizing words and thoughts, while the "hum" in me, the human, pushes fragments into the semblance of story.

The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.

Turns out, this 'whatabboutery' is a classic way of silencing women when you don't like what they're fighting for. Don't panic, feminists are quite capable of fighting multiple battles at once!

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

RNA interference operates by deploying an enzyme known as "Dicer." Dicer snips a long piece of RNA into short fragments. These little fragments can then embark on a search-and-destroy mission: they seek out a messenger RNA molecule that has matching letters, then they use a scissors-like enzyme to chop it up. The genetic information carried by that messenger RNA is thus silenced.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." [ Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States , August 8, 1950]

It's difficult because we live in a world that doesn't really respect the creative and intellectual contributions of women. It's more like "Oh, you're so cute. Be quiet. Shhh, don't talk too much.

The crisis with all creative work is that it requires us to trust that generative voice inside us while also silencing the negative ones. It's so easy to mix them all up and end up quietly abandoning our ambitions.

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

Who gets to speak and why?, I wrote last week, is the only question.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time.

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.

For in appearing to use only its rights, the Prince can very easily expand them and, on the pretext of public calm, prevent assemblies intended to restore good order; so that it takes advantage either of a silence that it prevents from being broken, or of the irregularities that it causes to be committed, and to punish those who dare speak.

True, she did speak as she was being tortured, but can moans and cries be classed as words? Besides, they often stilled her by gagging.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.