Quotes About Expression

I don't need to roar, for I hold the power of the whisper. I don't have to be black or white ... for I am the color and beauty of creation!

Pain is not what you see and not what you feel. Pain is what you can only hear, alone in the dark.

according to Freud, the tie you pick, the ring you wear, the shirt you buy, all say something about you. Nothing is random, everything you do has intent.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.