Top 80 Stifle Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Stifle Quotes from famous people such as Jean O’Leary, Kate O’Brien, Janet Frame, Anita Elberse, Tom Green, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I cannot believe that the American people and the peopl

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group’s rights.
Jean O’Leary
Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.
Kate O’Brien
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one’s need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
Janet Frame
One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.
Anita Elberse
You can’t let regret stifle your creativity.
Tom Green
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo Tolstoy
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
Ralph Nader
We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour.
Sigmar Gabriel
Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.
Patti Smith
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
Rebecca MacKinnon
When President Trump took office, he immediately began a process to remove and replace undue regulatory burdens that stifle American innovation and economic development.
Andrew R. Wheeler
If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.
Myron Scholes
If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.
Myron Scholes
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Liu Xiaobo
Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.
Flannery O’Connor
It’s such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.
Shirley Henderson
Some rules are there for a reason – but it’s one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.
Winnie Harlow
Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.
Kate O’Brien
Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I’ll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that’s never-ending.
Chris Ofili
Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.
Christine Pelosi
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
Rebecca MacKinnon
As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.
Andrew Breitbart
You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
Damon Knight
Written reports stifle creativity.
Ross Perot
Written reports stifle creativity.
Ross Perot
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
Sergey Brin
I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.
Michelle Obama
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Madame de Stael
Overly restrictive regulations not only stifle the private sector; they also ultimately hurt consumers.
Ajit Pai
Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
Seth Shostak
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America… that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
Ernestine Rose
Incumbents have long promoted regulation in the name of

Incumbents have long promoted regulation in the name of protecting consumers when their actual goal is to block new entrants and stifle competition.
Ajit Pai
‘Who Fears Death’ addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.
Nnedi Okorafor
In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of ‘overpermiticisation’ – requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
Naomi Wolf
The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
Malcolm Gladwell
Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.
Sam Graves
‘Who Fears Death’ addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.
Nnedi Okorafor
We should protect free speech by repealing offences that stifle legitimate debate – like ‘glorification’ of terrorism and religious hatred – but take a ‘zero-tolerance’ approach to extremists inciting violence.
Dominic Raab
On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It’s a real trade off.
Cynthia Weil
Google’s competitors fail to demonstrate that Google’s actions stifle competition rather than reflect pro-consumer innovations.
Marvin Ammori
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Madame de Stael
I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group’s rights.
Jean O’Leary
Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.
Sam Graves
Even before the World Cup in 2010 I had said that there were no world champions who aim to stifle the opposition’s play and somehow hope to win. These teams do not go far.
Joachim Low
The right man applauds your potential, he doesn’t stifle it.
Matthew Hussey
In a democracy, if a government creates bad policies, it can be voted out of office. Competition in the private sector, however, can easily work to encourage phishing rather than stifle it.
Richard Thaler
Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.
Marcus Brigstocke
On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It’s a real trade off.
Cynthia Weil
Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one’s need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
Janet Frame
Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
Seth Shostak
You need to know that you cannot control your feelings, and you cannot control your feelings about your feelings, but, as best as you can, intellectually understand that your feelings are valid and they’re okay and don’t try to stifle them or feel shame about them.
Raphael Bob-Waksberg
We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can’t hire talented people and stifle them. That’s not the way it works anymore.
Todd English
When President Donald Trump took office, he immediately began a process to remove and replace undue regulatory burdens that stifle American innovation and economic development. At the top of the list was the Obama Administration’s 2015 Waters of the United States rule.
Andrew R. Wheeler
I could stifle my voice, or strip it. I know that I could, because we can do anything we put our minds to. I know that I could, but it feels very unnatural for me to strip my prose like that, in part because place is so important to me.
Jesmyn Ward
I like ‘Stifle Tower,’ I like ‘Gobzilla.’ There’s a lot of nicknames that are pretty cool.
Rudy Gobert
The Internet is too transformative for incumbents to not want to try to stifle or curb it – incumbents in the sense of multinational corporations, governments, take your pick.
Alexis Ohanian
The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.
Shepard Fairey
I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.
Michelle Obama