"We are the species that clamors to be…" — Joyce Carol Oates

More Clamor Quotes

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• The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum,… — Charles Eliot Norton
• Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence. — Rabindranath Tagore
• Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power. — Eric Hoffer
• Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this… — John Flavel
• To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is… — Robert C. Murphy
• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to… — Seth Godin
• But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned,… — James Madison
• Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is… — Albert Einstein
• I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with finding ourselves: learning… — Kelly Cutrone
• The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking.… — James F. Byrnes

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