Top 202 Silenced Quotes & Sayings

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

My voice is not going to be silenced by anybody.

A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.

My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you're jeered at, told to shut up, sit still, stop being silly, there's a cacophony of noise rolling around in your head. When I was singing, it was peaceful.

I know the truth of North Korea. The oppression and their tragedy. It cannot be silenced.

Nobody should be getting silenced.

All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

If you are corrupt and you have extra cash you are able to shut the mouth of your accuser and they will be silenced.

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

I've been silenced in America.

There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe our true voice, our authentic voice, dwells. But there's also the silence that censors us, that tells us what we have to say does not want to be heard, should not be heard, has no value. And that if we speak, it will be at our own peril. This kind of silence is deadly. This kind of silence is deadening to who we are as women. And when a woman is silenced, the world is silenced. When a woman speaks, there is an opening.

Worship is the thank you that can't be silenced

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

I might be living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass, homeless, but I won't be silenced.

For a country to be looted, its people's voice must be silenced.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

I will not be silenced. I will not be intimidated. I'm not going to be bullied by Donald Trump.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

The contributions of influential African Americans have frequently been ignored, underrepresented, and even silenced.

There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced.

Citizens should never allow themselves to be silenced.

When people do marriage right, they don't complain so much, and so their voices are silenced by the rabble of promiscuous charlatans peddling their pathetic world view as 'progressive.'

We need to stand together with all of the victims [ of sexual harassment] and make sure they are not silenced.

Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.

In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.

How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Historically, women's voices were central to food narratives, yet they were marginalized, and what happened at the table, the kitchen, the garden, and the fields was silenced. I'm very interested in how food appears in the historical record and animates our understanding of the South. It provides texture both to the past and to our contemporary experience. My work is not about discovering new voices, but rather it encourages voices that have been silenced to come forward and speak a little louder.

I refuse to be silenced.

I will not be silenced or deterred.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

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 and what is silenced in the culture we're in.

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

Debate about the causes and consequences of climate change and the policy positions taken in response to it should be encouraged, not silenced.

The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey to merit life. The Law has been silenced, but it can only be silenced when it is has been perfectly fulfilled—when it has been completed. And that’s just what Jesus did.

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.

Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.

Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.