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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.
John Stuart Mill
Power
Would
Would-Be
Silencing
Minus
More
Had
He
Opinion
Were
Than
Person
Justified
Mankind
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus
History
Happy
Those
Silencing
Misery
Weep
Periods
Encounter
Want
Acknowledge
Which
Who
They say that if you voted for Donald Trump, you're a threat to the university community. But the real threat is silencing the First Amendment rights of people with whom you disagree.
Betsy DeVos
You
Rights
People
Disagree
First
Community
Say
Silencing
Threat
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Voted
Real
Trump
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Donald
Donald Trump
Whom
They Say
University
To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.
Brendon Burchard
Me
Mind
Meditation
Focusing
Silencing
Simply
I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.
Abhijit Banerjee
Me
People
I Am
Think
Silencing
More
Only
Opaque
Students
Days
Am
Lectures
Than
Who
Usual
We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists.
Deeyah Khan
Democracy
Worldview
Will
Build
Own
Extremists
Must
Arbitrary
Critics
Silencing
Rather
Through
Merits
Alternative
How
Than
Sustainable
Heavy-Handed
Explaining
Using
Mechanisms
Defend
Instead of silencing artists, is it possible that antidepressants can actually help them vocalize their creative ambitions?
Andrew Shaffer
Creative
Ambition
Possible
Silencing
Instead
Artists
Them
Help
Actually
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.
Jay Griffiths
Music
Knowledge
Mind
Medicine
Trees
Deforestation
Silencing
Only
Double
Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.
Olympia Dukakis
Me
Women
Fear
Sometimes
Thousand
Thousand Years
Silencing
Daughters
Feel
Altered
Within
Were
Years
Imprinted
Front
Oil
Burned
Who
Deep
Four