“And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
Source: Benny and Babe
Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux.
Book VIII (1678–1679), fable 23.
Fables (1668–1679)
“And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
Source: Benny and Babe
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Source: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 51
Context: Atheism is not a philosophy - it is not even a view of the world. It is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Mark Twain book A Tramp Abroad
A Tramp Abroad (1880)
Context: You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.
“isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?”
Zelda Fitzgerald book Save Me the Waltz
Source: Save Me the Waltz
Bassel Khartabil (1981–2015) free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner
Tweet Jan 31, 2012, 6:34AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/164355948582932480 at Twitter.com, cited in: Bassel Khartabil, Champion of open internet detained in Syria http://www.indexoncensorship.org/index-awards-2013/digital-freedom at indexoncensorship.org, 2013
John Leland (Baptist) (1754–1841) American Baptist minister
Source: An Oration delivered at Cheshire (5 July 1802), p. 267
“They that govern the most make the least noise.”
John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law
Power.
Table Talk (1689)