Stifle Quotes

They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

Written reports stifle creativity.

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.