Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

Silence = Death

Sometimes, I myself, even though I'm in Washington, I go quiet because there is so much intimidation around me.

The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.

As an actor, I have a lot of fear, thinking that if I speak my mind, or something that feels like it deviates from the norm as a woman, am I going to be made to disappear in my industry?

I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.

There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear.

I know that when we deprive communities of their voice, it can be dangerous.

When threats become unspeakable, unshareable and even unreadable, their power over us only grows.

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.

There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.

We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.