Silence Quotes

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Silence is best.

Speech is the small change of silence.