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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. Liu Xiaobo

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Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important. Marcus Brigstocke

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I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free. Michelle Obama

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Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win. Betsy DeVos

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

Love Music Try Free Because Stifle Passionately Traditions Barren

In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment. Naomi Wolf

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Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages. Seth Shostak

Faith Dark Matter Experiment Approach Inquiry Dark Ages Tried About Never Stifle Years Years Ago Personal Ages Should

As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health. Bob Beauprez

Hope Health Remember Safety Debate Country Energy Nothing State Unnecessary Lawmakers Colorado Federal Economy Policies Stifle Doing Role While Public Regulations Public Safety Growth

Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies. Christine Pelosi

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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. Janet Frame

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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. Madame de Stael

Mistake Impossible Easy Voice Delicate Clear Also Stifle Conscience

Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation. Marvin Ammori

Innovation Phone Neutrality Network Could Cable Without Stifle Companies

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation. Myron Scholes

Freedom Innovation Everything Rules Stifle End Up

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them. Nnedi Okorafor

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In a democracy, if a government creates bad policies, it can be voted out of office. Competition in the private sector, however, can easily work to encourage phishing rather than stifle it. Richard Thaler

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Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital. Sam Graves

Government Business Will Community Only Instead New Prosper Limit Access Stifle Imposing Aside Capital Business Community Should Stand Regulations Growth

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