Voicing Opinions Quotes

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you want your community to be just by chance alone. I really believe you have to let people know, to use your voice, to say, 'this is what I like about my place, I want to keep it this way, this is what I think can be improved, this is what I disapprove of.' That's the only way you can have a part in shaping the future.

I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

In the 1950s, when we went to Lord's, you had to sit down, and it was very prim and proper. It was only in the 1960s when we started to do well that West Indians started voicing their opinions.

I have a mouth and I'm not afraid to use it.

I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

I believe in voicing out your opinions.

You're not taught to be ambitious as a woman. And so when you are, sometimes you shy away from it or you're scared of voicing your opinions.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.

I'm not a talker unless I really feel I have to say something.

I actually tried replying to what I thought were some unfair comments on the Internet once or twice, and I never heard back. What seems to happen with some people is they're very much interested in voicing their own opinions, but not in having them challenged.

I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist.