“The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.”

“When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other of these two sentiments. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire.”

Raymond Geuss book Philosophy and Real Politics

“Direct democracy benefits everyone as long as it does not drown out minority voices.”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

“Speak, when all other voices are silenced!”

Titon Rahmawan

“There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,
And wake from ignorance the Western World.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“The adherents of this ideology are overpowering other voices within Muslim debate, especially those trying to challenge it. There are so many strong, positive Muslim voices that are being drowned out.”

David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“The voice is an aid to intelligence.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“Typography cracked the voices of silence.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author