Quotes About Suppression Of Speech

#1. New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.

#2. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Louise L. Hay

#3. Instead of leaving on a gas-guzzling generator all night, Mama and Papa make a killing by making hard 'n fast love like a couple of blinded down-'n-out mixamatosis rabbits with nothing to live for.

Jonathan Dunne

#4. We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into our strengths. Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#5. Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie

#6. Every man - in the development of his own personality - has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man's essential nature.
[Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment (1963)]

Thomas I. Emerson

#7. I distinctly remember a conversation with my band in the van where I was having a complete meltdown. It was 1984, I think, and I was huddled in the back corner of our van and saying, "I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this." I didn't want to play any more shows. I just wanted to stop.

Michael Stipe

#8. I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

Rachel Boston

#9. I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Brene Brown

#10. When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

Nelson Mandela

#11. Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

Jackson Katz

#12. The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

Ayn Rand

#13. Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.

Rajneesh

#14. Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

Louis D. Brandeis

#15. As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

Janis Joplin

#16. My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

Ma Jian

#17. Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.

#19. We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

Jaime Lerner

#20. To be at peace, does not mean that you are amiss of every storm, it only means that you can find a calm within the storm.

Tania Elizabeth

#21. The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Oscar Wilde