Quotes About Silencing

And the only thing worse than the silencing of a martyr, a real martyr – someone with dangerous ideas – is silencing someone who has nothing at all to say.

Siempre ahogo mis sensaciones, mis deseos, mis sentimientos, mis miserias y alegrías. Lo suprimo todo, eternamente, porque es menos doloroso dejar de sentir.

Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.

The accusation can be made only by conflating the CCP with Chinese people so that being anti-CCP must mean being anti-Chinese. (It's exactly what the CCP wants us to think.) It's a cheap accusation, but it serves as an effective silencing device in this country because of the widespread, and quite proper, sensitivity to inflaming racial tensions.

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

El silencio equivale a la muerte", solíamos decir. Y por debajo de eso estaría la suposición –el miedo– de que la muerte equivalía al silencio.

Whereupon Jim flopped into a chair and held forth at great length on the necessity of keeping wives in their places; to wit: speechless and expressionless in the presence of their lords and masters and cited several instances where men had met their downfall and utter ruin by ill advisedly permitting their wives to air their ignorance by talking. His audience, composed entirely of males, agreed with him. Wife-beaters are numberous in Poplar Street.

Oliver Darcy is a perpetual victim. He is constantly advocating for people to be banned and silenced. As a member of the media, Oliver Darcy should respect our First Amendment right.

Can anyone calculate the dollar amount that has been spent to put duct tape over women's mouths in comparison to the amount these companies have paid women to write or direct? I want to compare the money spent on quieting every unspoken truth against every unsold screenplay, unpublished article, and rejected application.

There was no need for the French to condemn us. So long as we spoke in their language, we condemned ourselves.

Se algo em seu íntimo lhe disser "você não é pintor", é então que você deve pintar, meu velho, e também esta voz se calará, mas somente desta maneira;

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Strident voices everywhere were fighting to be heard, and just as it so often happened in the past, the voices that shouted the loudest were the ones heard best. The voices that fed on fear and prejudices drowned out all else.

There are two ways to choke off free expression. We've already discussed one of them: clamp down on free speech and declare some topics off-limits. That strategy is straightforward enough. The other, more insidious way to limit free expression is to try to change the very language people use.

Quién me pregunta a mí, quién pregunta alguna vez a personas que piensan por sí mismas y se atreven a vivir, y en qué me habéis convertido, a mí y a tantas otras con esta absurda actitud comprensiva ante cualquier problema, acaso no se le ha ocurrido a nadie que también se asesina a las personas cuando se les priva de la palabra y con ello de la posibilidad de vivir y pensar.

The powers that be, the Great Unelected Consciences of the World, didn't approve of what she said and that was the end of her.

In college I read John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which contains this thrilling declaration: "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary 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."23 We seem to have gone, in one generation, from the bracing atmosphere of Mill's On Liberty to the dark, dank atmosphere of Orwell's 1984.

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.

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

These social justice warriors spread into society with their marching orders: patriarchy is bad, masculinity is toxic, objective reality is a myth, lived experience is the only truth, science is white supremacy, biology isn't real, men and women are the same, and anyone you disagree with should be shouted down, shamed, shunned and silenced.

Why does Wendell think that Aysha is the one who has been doing all the yelling and complaining? Because in his mind she's supposed to be listening, not talking. If she expresses herself at all, that's too much.

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

Soon enough, the government that silences a media outlet finds muffling a second easier. The parliament that outlaws one political party has a precedent for banning the next. The majority that strips a particular minority of its rights doesn't stop there. The security force that beats protestors and gets away with it doesn't hesitate before doing so again.