Clamor Quotes

• Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

  Margaret Atwood

  Irises, Handmaids Tale, Bleeding Heart

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sad, Wisdom, Bad Relationship

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Silence, Crowds

  "Stray Birds".

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• Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

  Alain Finkielkraut

  Silence, Dies

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• There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Discipline, Culture, Demand

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1878). “Literary Essays”

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• It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Loyalty, Truth, Science

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• Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Stories, Shells, Single Word

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• Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

  Hermann Hesse

  Responsibility, Thinking, Leader

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Struggle

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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  The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.29, Vintage

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• Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Character, Personality, Triumph

  'The Poets' (1876)

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• The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

  Tom C. Clark

  Prejudice, Trials, Television

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• There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

  Thomas Hood

  Three, Novelty, Sooner Or Later

  "The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, with All the Original Illustrations".

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• OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Attention, Body

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• True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

  Edward Hoagland

  Color, Snow, Track

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Son, Fighting

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Gold, Fairy Tale

  Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

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• Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher death, grief is unspoken, publicly ignored except for those moments at the funeral that are over too quickly, or the conversations among the cognoscenti, those of us who recognize in one another a kindred chasm deep in the center of who we are.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sex, Grief, Silence

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.157, Random House

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• We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Equality, Excellence, Matter

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• He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Acceptance, Evil, Historical

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Destiny

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Courage, Integrity, Destiny

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Keep moving forward, even one or two steps, in your own way. Those who live out their lives to the fullest, unperturbed by the noisy clamor around them, are the true winners.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Moving, Two, Way

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• happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

  Maude Meagher

  Happiness, Grief, Doe

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