(18 quotes found)
“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
“I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.”
Claude Debussy
“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
“The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our yawns”
Helen Rowland
“Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.”
William Moulton Marston
“All the heat there was seemed to concentrate in the Hons' cupboard, which was always stifling. Here we would sit, huddled up on the slatted shelves, and talk for hours about life and death.”
Nancy Mitford
“I think development has been stifled for 40 years because of a lack of parking,”
Justin Taylor
“Regulatory or legislative solutions wholly without justification in marketplace activities would stifle, not enhance the Internet.”
Walter McCormick
“We were tired. I didn't think we needed to stifle their momentum as much as we needed a break. We just ran out of gas down the stretch.”
Rod Schwarz
“Everybody is realizing that big move to get bigger 5 or 6 years ago, is really stifling a lot of companies.”
Gregg Warren
