Silenced Quotes

108 Silenced quotes by 96 unique authors

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing. — Orson Welles
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. — Rachel Carson
I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced... — Selima Hill
The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse… — Charles Krauthammer
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — Vincent Van Gogh
Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful… — Junot Diaz
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. — Jack Kevorkian
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by… — Karl A. Menninger
I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia… — Kevin Rudd
What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. — Jacques Derrida
The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which… — Marcel Proust
Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,… — Margaret Atwood
I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook… — Michael Collins
Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with… — Soren Kierkegaard
That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do… — Joanne Harris
I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace. — Brian Selznick
There’s nowhere to escape,” Dobey said, jamming his hands into his pockets and staring into the Valley. That’s not true, baby,” said Desiree. She took… — Francesca Lia Block
Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly… — Charlotte Bronte
It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the… — Anne Carson
Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political… — Pat Conroy
Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction. — Peter Grimwade
But what if...what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were… — Stephenie Meyer
Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put… — P.W. Catanese
I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in… — Jeanette Winterson

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