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“Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Modern man has lost the option of silence.”

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Book:Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.”

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Author:Johan Huizinga

“The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.”

“Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.”

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Book:The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi