#voices

In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#clear #condemned #firm #interests #intolerance

The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#closing #command #could #desperately #him

What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say? ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#hear #more #people #say #than

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#geneva #start #voices

Time has a way of stripping everything that is apparent about a thing away, leaving the Perception of a thing unrecognizable. But in the process, Time bares the true essence and beauty of the thing. ↗

— Vivian Marie Feggans

#women-writers #beauty

Even natural languages have personalities. 'Escapement' is the name of a device, a toothed wheel, that controls the motion of the hands of the clock. The word has connotations of gaining freedom. The German equivalent is 'Hemmung.' It means 'restraint,' and also, 'inhibition.' It conjures up images of of losing freedom. In describing a presumably emotionally neutral gadget, the two languages perceive in its functions two diametrically opposite states of human condition. ↗

— J.T. Fraser

#j-t-fraser #time #voices-of-time #freedom

The other option you have is to come to terms with this fucking life, as you call it, and put up with the suffering it involves. Put up with the suffering we all have to endure, always, to get through that and find and enjoy the happiness and joy that it brings us as well, in spite of our being alive. ↗

— Arnaldur Indriðason

#life

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#fear #insanity #sanity #voices #sanity

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#duty #ideals #men #our #raise

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given