Mute

Famous quotes containing the word mute:

    Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.
    Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)

    In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person’s mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “What may this mean? Language of Man pronounced
    By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed!
    The first at least of these I thought denied
    To beasts, whom God on their creation-day
    Created mute to all articulate sound;
    The latter I demur, for in their looks
    Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears.
    John Milton (1608–1674)