“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.”

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

“Speak, when all other voices are silenced!”

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

“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.”

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

“The voice is an aid to intelligence.”

“Typography cracked the voices of silence.”

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