Quotes about Silence

I think it is time for a modern War Against Error. A deliberately heightened battle against cultivated ignorance, enforced silence, and metastasizing lies. A wider war that is fought daily by human rights organizations in journals, reports, indexes, dangerous visits, and encounters with malign oppressive forces. A hugely funded and intensified battle of rescue from the violence that is swallowing the dispossessed.

Clearing damp and gasping for breath. In the silence that followed, Baby Suggs, holy, offered up to them her great big heart. She did not tell them to clean up their lives or go and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek or its glory bound pure. She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it.

Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all by themselves with no help from the mind.

Too many things to say. Too many things unsaid.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.

Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.