“One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. . . . The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.”
William Orville Douglas
“I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.”
Claude Debussy
“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.”
John Stuart Mill
“Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.”
William Moulton Marston
“The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our yawns”
Helen Rowland
“It's stifled our share price.”
David Moore
“Edith, stifle yourself!”
Norman Lear
