Stifle Quotes

113 Stifle quotes by 99 unique authors

While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others' rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity,… — Lauren Mackler
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless… — Marcus Brigstocke
When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected. It hurts us… — William J. Clinton
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. — Claude Debussy
We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works… — Todd English
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. — Ralph Nader
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a… — Flannery O'Connor
Written reports stifle creativity. — Ross Perot
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. — John Charles Polanyi
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively.… — Taylor Swift
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. — Leo Tolstoy
In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were… — Naomi Wolf
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult… — Liu Xiaobo
For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our… — Richard John Neuhaus
Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats.… — Kevin Brockmeier
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek… — Glenn Beck
What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking… — Russell Brand
we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle… — Paulo Coelho
You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on… — Wilhelm Reich
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. — Karl Lagerfeld
How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts? — Simone Weil
God does not want to control you, or stifle you, or manipulate you, or force you to do anything you don't want to do. Quite… — Matthew Kelly
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down,… — Benjamin Franklin
Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering' — sorry about… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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