#shouting

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. ↗

— Annie Besant

#austere #beneficent #celestial #class #crowds

We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#away #bad #come #could #dr

We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #respect #shouting

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#inner-voice #inner-voicery #invasion #life #lights

What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#shouting #silence #soul #anger

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument. ↗

— Iain Pears

#blind-faith #disagreement #discussion #doctrine #faith

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#choruses #crowds #human-voice #music #shouting

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#first #jokes #opinion #shouting #story

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song. ↗

— George Michael

#anything #before #confidence #dinner #done

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#everyone #gentle #shouting #soft #speaking