Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis).

Horace Mann

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Pythagoras

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler Ross

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

Sandra Day O'conner

Silence was never written down.

Italian Proverb

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Sydney Smith

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Alfred Victor Vigny

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Samuel Johnson

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Adrienne Rich

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.

John Wycliffe

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Marcel Marceau

Listen to the sound of silence.

Paul Simon

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina G. Rossetti

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Cato the Elder

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Thomas Carlyle

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

Thomas Neill

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

Charles Buxton

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Saadi

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

William Penn

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Marcel Marceau

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

How can a heart suffer your deepest thoughts and yet only speak the unmoving, inconsequential utterances of abject silence?

Anne Austin

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Edward Hoagland

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Edgar Allan Poe

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

Ausonius

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Sir Francis Bacon

Nothing is more useful than silence.

Menander

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

Fulton J. Sheen

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Charlotte Bronte

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

German Proverb

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S. Burroughs

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.

Helen Keller

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Paul Robeson

We matched Silence against Vargas to contest a title eliminator. Marquez turned down the fight with Silence, saying he was not interested to fight in South Africa.

Rodney Berman

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

We can ride somewhere together for two hours and not say a word. But it's a very comfortable silence.

Fern Stapleton

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.

A. E. Housman

That was probably the most touching moment of silence I've stood through.

Mike Sweeney

It is hard to sit in silence, to watch one's youth wash away. New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

Karl Rahner

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

Max Ehrman

We're all for the facts about homosexuality getting out, but you won't find them in this publication. This is another attempt by the homosexual lobby to silence any views on homosexuality but its own.

Janet Parshall

The law in this case is an ass and an idiot, as Shakespeare says, because it's being used to silence the only true consumer advocate this state has.

Harvey Peyton

For many survivors, breaking the silence is an important part of the healing process.

Melissa Kleinman

This infrastructure is murderous and we will try to deal with it and silence it.

Amos Gilad

No one ever asked me to lie and I was never promised a job for my silence.

David Kendall

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

Sir Arthur Helps

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Samuel Beckett

I thought he'd appreciate that. Whenever Tom led our morning worship service, he'd often just sit in silence. I have to admit, I always liked when Tom led service because it meant I could fall asleep. But hey, sometimes he fell asleep too.

Greg Rollins

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

Robert Stone

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Simon Wiesenthal

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Samuel Beckett

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

Andre Segovia

There would be a moment of silence when she was clearly thinking about what was being said and then she would challenge it, asking, 'But what specifically in those opinions strongly suggests that this is someone who ascribes to judicial restraint?

Leonard Leo

The Silence of the Lambs.

John Douglas

Your very silence shows you agree.

Euripides

We will no longer endure these tactics in silence. It is beyond comprehension that law enforcement authorities prefer to leak information rather than interrogate the persons who they characterize as 'suspects' in this investigation.

Patrick Burke

It was like silence, and then the next pitch, 5,000 fans were yelling all at once.

Bobby Jenks

I heard the engine screaming, a loud explosion and saw big red flames. That was it ... it was total silence.

Tom Hunter

The price of seeing is silence.

Marge Piercy

Many around the world are enduring these hardships simply because they practice their faith. They endure mostly in silence and away from the public spotlight and with little hope for a brighter tomorrow.

Frank Wolf

We wanted a fun way to end the silence. Everyone there was having a great time, and rather than just ending the silence by speaking, this was a way to celebrate the day.

David Bass

Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.

Gioacchino Rossini

We asked, what are the goals for Winneshiek County? What are our projects and dreams? This brought a silence. No one had a strong idea or plan.

Brenda Ranum

Some people don't think we're as good as some people say we are, so we have to silence all the critics. We have to show we're the Cherokees and go out there and perform on the level we know we can perform.

Cordiary Bell

I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing ... Silence ... Waves. Nothing happens? Or Has everything Happened and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life?

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Even though [the] Xbox will already have been launched by then, our silence doesn't mean we are doing nothing. We would have been really concerned if we messed up our strategy because of Microsoft's moves.

Tetsuhiko Yasuda

It is hard to sit in silence, to watch one's youth wash away, ... Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city ... to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.

Harry Connick, Jr.

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Walter Elliot

I sat them down in a room and showed them the film. They were shocked. They sat in silence as they watched the film.

Paul Bliss

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.

Thomas Starr King

If there's one thing that Jews understand, it's the danger of silence from the international community.

Ruth Messinger

In a horrified silence he stood up, and to renewed applause, danced a little jig. He returned to the stage a final time, ostentatiously dusting off his tails to demonstrate that he was OK.

Richard Dyer

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with a sort of greedy enjoyment, as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was saturated with the bouquet of silence.

Holbrook Jackson

For many Tibetans it was the first time they had heard about it. There were thousands listening in complete silence.

Kate Saunders

I'm asking everyone to speak up. It is a silent killer and silence condones violence.

Rae Spence

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Charles Simmons

He has embarrassed the government. By continuing as minister without portfolio he has earned himself a price for silence.

Arun Jaitley

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

William Dean Howells

The silence of the grave gagged the living; people who had talked with his incarnate approval became sepulchrally mute.

Peter Evans

It was incredible. Before the kickoff, we had a moment of silence and then played seven or eight games. There were so many people there to show their support.

Rick George

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

Marcel Marceau

Something to be said for silence.

Sam Neill

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.

Archibald Macleish

Erasing persecution of gays from the history of the Holocaust repeats the tragic silence of most Germans in the Nazi years.

Harry Knox

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

Matthew Perry

Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.

Chevy Chase

What happened to November? Silence. All gone. Just that, in fact. An act. An act.

Kurt Tucholsky

Again the hug, again the swirl of skirts, again the super-sandals squeaking away down the linoleum. Then silence. And peace.

Tony Hendra

The silence is deafening. It's very difficult to get people engaged in talking about this problem in the community.

Bob Baldwin

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

Mayor Wynn is not alone in his silence and backroom dealings as this irreversible train-wreck happens. This silence from City Hall is deafening.

Bill Bunch

People who really understood the use of space and the fact that the sound and the silence are of equal weight and that what you're doing is really manipulating space. It's the same as a painting except that you're doing it aurally.

David Sanborn

We had been told there would be no questions. Somebody had to break the silence.

Jim Bruce

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

Harold Rosenberg

The photo ID bill is clearly in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and will effectively silence thousands of Georgia's voters of all races and ages.

Jennifer Owens

It would mean a lot if we could all get together and play together for a long time. I understand there are a lot of question marks about the corners. I can understand the questions, especially about me and Adam LaRoche. We're going to have to go out and silence the questions.

Mark Derosa

He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.

Jethro Tull

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

S Is for Silence.

Sue Grafton

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Charles Patterson

We will be doing a moment of silence on board (the Queen of Prince Rupert). This is the first time a B.C. ferry will pass by the site of the sinking of the Queen of the North and our crew certainly want to recognize that.

Deborah Marshall

We're not a meeting, and we don't preach. We sit in a circle for an hour at a Friend's home and listen to a higher power through our silence. Some Friends groups have semi-programmed meetings where they read Bible verses and sing hymns, but not ours.

Loree Campbell

The silence is deafening ... The Party of the New Deal has become the Party of the No Deal.

Sam Johnson

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Pamela Ribon

I think the entire country was holding its collective breath when she got hurt. I've never experienced that type of total silence there. It scared the daylights out of all of us.

Doug Elgin

Don't suffer in silence, you don't have to, go to the doctor.

Courtney Thorne smith

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Margaret Halsey

I have reason to be grateful to Dr. Cook for favors received; I lived with his folks while I was suffering with my eyes, due to snow blindness, but I feel that all of the debts of gratitude have been liquidated by my silence in this controversy, and I will have nothing more to say in regard to him or to his claims.

Matthew Henson

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

Igor Stravinsky

That this type of completely unacceptable remarks are continually being repeated does not mean we should accept them in silence.

Ursula Plassnik

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Georg Trakl

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

Archibald Macleish

It would be bizarre if we were to adopt a position of silence when countries like Germany were moving in the opposite direction.

David Cameron

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

William Sharp

Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness.

Robert Burton

Silence is so accurate.

Mark Rothko

In Russia there were gulags, in Germany they had concentration camps, and because of the silence of the international community a lot of people were killed there. We should realize that we have an obligation to stop such things from happening.

Harry Wu

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To Silence.

Thomas Hood

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

Maurice Blanchot

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

Thomas Sankara

We will be honoring Russ Wood with a moment of silence prior to the start and on the volunteer shirts. Russ was a longtime volunteer for the Hardcore Run and passed away this summer.

Mark Mikenas

In many countries the bullet or the bomb is a cheap and relatively risk-free way of silencing troublesome reporting. Lack of proper inquiries by the authorities and absence of punishment of the perpetrators encourages more killings and intimidates other journalists into silence.

Rodney Pinder

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Edward G. Bulwer lytton

Burglars and bad guys don't like noise. Silence is their friend. They don't want to see lights. They don't want to see noise.

Mark Lumpkin

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.

Saskya Pandita

The silence is important. It puts you in a quiet, relaxed mood. You're able then to talk and resolve things in a way you can't in your kitchen at home.

Marcia Ferrante

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

Theodor W. Adorno

Blue wall of silence and lies to obstruct justice.

Abner Louima

It was the quietest silence I've ever heard. It was just speechless. I couldn't explain in words what it felt like.

Tony Mortensen

For us, silence is an active catalyst for inspiration. It inspires us to make a racket.

Jonah Rapino

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[Wednesday's edition of The Nation newspaper, published by the company, covered its front page with the headline] Shut Up or Shut Down, ... going all out to silence his enemies.

Thaksin Shinawatra

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Anthony De Mello

In light of recent horrible events, we decided to expand the scope of our memorial to include those who have suffered so much on the Gulf Coast. We invite everyone in the Louisville area to join us, sit in silence, and light a candle to honor the memory of those who have died in terrorist activities or in natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.

Terry Taylor

Our society has a really bad problem of shaming people into silence when they've been sexually assaulted.

Ashley Taylor

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

George Steiner

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Faith Baldwin

We are trying to change the law because it is being used to silence critics; it is a very bad law that severely limits freedom of expression.

Ou Virak

If they want to hold silence for one day ... I say God bless them, it takes a certain amount of courage to stand up and do this.

Jim Moser

When it comes to debates over public policy and issues, Dean should be welcoming the voice of America's churches, not attempting to silence them.

Joseph Cella

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

Donald Justice

That was it. It was total silence. I told my wife to call 911.

Tom Hunter

Any time there's silence like this in a case, the parties have got to be talking. Cases don't just languish unless there's something else going on.

Anne Bremner

He doesn't tell people how to play. Silence is a good thing. If he's happy, he doesn't say much.

Aaron Parks

It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.

Henry James

The king will try to silence the opposition, to try and tighten the knot around us but we will continue to make things very difficult for the state.

Mario Masuku

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Lance Morrow

The most eloquent way I could offer my respect is with a moment of silence.

Adam Cummings

If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears.

Lord Byron

Venezuela is speaking with its silence.

Julio Borges

A moment of silence is nothing more than a code word for prayer.

Oliver North

The Earl of Liverpool, whom Madame de Staël is said to have described as having `a talent for silence'.

H. L. Hunt

I can't remember one second of silence.

Peter Shaw

Silence [is] the unbearable repartee.

Alexander Theroux

Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness.

Samuel Beckett

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

Budd Schulberg

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

Jean Stafford

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Rachel Naomi Remen

The pro-life community and Christians believe that this is a landmark case, because what's happening is Planned Parenthood and the ACLU want to silence the pro-life message.

Troy Newman