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The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.
The enemy puts full effort into silencing only the greatest voices.
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.
Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
It is perhaps the great discomfort of those trying to silence the world to discover that we have voices sealed inside our heads, voices that with each passing day, grow even louder than the clamor of the world outside.
When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Never let anyone silence your voice.
Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it's fear.
When others move to silence or violence, step out of the conversation and Make it Safe. When safety is restored, go back to the issue at hand and continue the dialogue.
The Thought Police: To censor and protect.
Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.
Correcting the situation or by not allowing the person to have access to you.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
Forbid Us Something and That Thing we Desire
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.
Silence, healing.
Silence always used to guide
A truth that could never be denied
Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense
Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.
absolute silence of the courtroom,
If you admit that to silence your opponent by force
is to win an intellectual argument,
then you admit the right to silence people by force.
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.
Voices beyond my ability to measure suddenly hushing all at once.
A wall of the most effective soundproofing: indifference.
Through silence only the good messages go unheard.
No one nor anything can silence me.
Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
... we may seek to impose severe restrictions upon what, how and when we engage with others so that the risks are statistically minimised.
To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.
Privacy,is what you shut your mouth about,Denial is what you shut your eyes against.
When you've gone to silence and are trying way too hard to convince yourself that you've done the right thing, you might want to examine whether you are intentionally minimizing the cost of not speaking up and exaggerating the risks of doing so.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.
Silence guides the mind...
You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
Information can liberate but also imprisonate.
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
Conscience can be silenced through an incessant disobedience
We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
Silence is an endangered quantity in our time ... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality - a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.
Silence, too, can be torture.
To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.
Silence Is The Answer Of Every Questions
Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.
What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.
Silence is best.
Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.
No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.
Silence is more than observation; it informs from non-observation.
Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished.
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
No group can be truly suppressed until its members are trained and convinced to suppress one another.
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
Silence is the door of consent.
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
Silence gives consent.
Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination
See and keep silent.
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.
The voices were muffled; the din of a
Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.
Silence is a necessary requirement for unnatural acts.
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction ...
The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily. The best thing about it was that they could see that you'd muted them, and they couldn't do a damn thing about it.
A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.
Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.
Fear and intimidation are tactics that work very well on those who allow themselves to be afraid and intimidated.
Never grant someone the power to silence your inner voice.
To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.
Censorship & Torture.
Netherlands, Nuenen
August 17, 2016
P.C.M. Hermans
locking the little scamp in the basement.
Nothing silences us more effectively than shame.
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison
I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?
Silence is a protective coating over pain.
The people's silence is a tyrant's greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.
It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.
Silence is a source of Great Strength.
The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.
Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.