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Letter "S" » silencing
«In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Enemies,
Friends,
Friendship,
Words
| Keywords:
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«The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea»
Author: Max Lerner
(Columnist, Politician)
| About:
America and Americans,
Freedom
| Keywords:
brand, competition, Maintaining, silencing
«Some people suffer in silence louder than others»
«If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
justified, minus, one-person, silencing
«The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Silence
| Keywords:
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«THERE is a conscience in Man, a whispering right advice, restraining unjust hands which man has almost succeeded in silencing; but, it is the voice of God; it can never be made dumb. Make the children cognizant of it.»
«Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
acknowledge, alleviation, encounter, in history, misery, periods, silencing, weep
«If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Opinions
| Keywords:
justified, minus, silencing
«Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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