Top 80 Stifle Quotes

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude Debussy
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
John Polanyi
If you’re so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
Katherine Paterson
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
Ralph Nader
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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
I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude Debussy
You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
Damon Knight
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
One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.
Anita Elberse
As the son of a small business owner, I know how regulatory overreach can stifle our economy and cost Americans jobs.
Todd Young
While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under the law, and weaken the protection of political and civil rights on the Internet.
Rebecca MacKinnon
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
Taylor Swift
I’ve always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it’s more rewarding.
Lily Cole
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
What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.
Richard Shelby
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
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
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
John Berger
There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.
Gary Neville
The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
Dennis Hastert
Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
William Moulton Marston