If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
– George Washington
Related Quotes:
- I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep – Charles Maurice de TalleyrandPrigord
- Sheep sheep are adorable.Human sheep, not so much.Think for yourself, for flock’s sake. – Scott Stabile
- Are you following the sheep to the slaughter house, or leading them to the pasture? – Jonathan Verderame
- Freedom is a rare gift… Quite easily taken for granted and even more easily taken away. – TT Escurel
- Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don’t value freedom until it is taken away. – Terry Goodkind
- I have had it with these dumb cakes on this dumb spaceship! – Philip Reeve
- There is no true freedom without time freedom. And there is no time freedom without financial freedom. – Amah Lambert
- My freedom to say ‘No’ directly underscores your freedom to say ‘Yes’. RESPECT my freedom to PROTECT your freedom. – Mamur Mustapha
- Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me. – Haruki Murakami
- Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep – rassool jibraeel snyman
- Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. – Ljupka Cvetanova
- Look Fabian, the world is full of sheep, don’t settle for being a sheep, even if you do reside over those creatures, act more like a Ram. – TA Uner
- If I choose to write about sheep, it’s just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance. – Haruki Murakami
- Most people are sheep and sheep don’t eat meat – Stephen King
- Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren’t much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep. – Leonie Swann
- Behind every wolf in sheep’s clothing is a trail of dead sheep – rjs – rassool jibraeel snyman
- There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word. – Bill Courtney
- People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Sren Kierkegaard
- Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Freedom of speech doesn’t mean threatening the freedom of others. – Vikrmn
- Don’t exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought. – Tim Fargo
- There are three absolute freedoms that we have that no one can take away; freedom to think, freedom to love and freedom to feel the joys of life. – Debasish Mridha
- Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd. – Marty Rubin
- When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech. – Dada Bhagwan
- Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. – Roland Barthes
- If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech. – DaShanne Stokes
- A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- More than ever at that instant did she long for speech – speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. – LM Montgomery
- Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness. – Thomas Bartholin
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara W Tuchman
- Freedom to dream has not yet been taken away by governments. – Osho
- When you strip down the layers and get to your soul, there is nothing that can be taken away. This is the essence of freedom. – Brownell Landrum
- When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right. – Jodi Picoult
- People speak even after their death. Only do speak those who have recorded their speech in writing before they die, the rest go silent forever – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. – PseudoDionysius the Areopagite
- Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen. – Alice Hoffman
- People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy. – Bryant McGill
- I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again. – Anna Akhmatova
- When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots? – Piero Scaruffi