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Silence Quotes

It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

Nature Power Silence Human Nature

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great Silence Conversation Arts

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.

Great Words Silence Value Better

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

John Edgar Wideman

Music Time Art Silence Rhythm Point

Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.

Jacqueline Woodson

Change Prayer Silence Book Write

The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.

Silence Speech Caused

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Heart Alone Travel Silence Dust Get

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

Men Silence You Choose Own Virtues

#MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work or society in general - because, for too long, silence has been the answer.

Work Women Silence People Society

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

Robert M. La Follette

Silence War Party Right Divine

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

Women Time Peace Silence War Voices

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

Thomas Jefferson

Silence Way Take Religious Notice

I've held my silence when I probably shouldn't have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I was afraid of career backlash. I was afraid of being excluded or losing opportunities if I didn't play nice.

Woman Silence Losing Writing Career

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Man Silence Distrust Who Course Any

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

Silence Learn Speech Dead Human

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

Great Sky Silence Listen She Old

The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

Akiva ben Joseph

Wisdom Silence Law Tradition Fence

I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she's breaking her silence, my heart stops.

Nicolle Wallace

Heart Silence Political She Her

It is our lack of will that lies behind the continued denial of justice to Jean McConville. Yet there is something that we can do now for her and for ourselves before our silence turns us from spectators into passive accomplices. We can remember her.

Justice Silence Remember Now Will

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Silence Key Comedy Listen Own Your

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

Silence Me Solitude More Than

I work in silence.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

Bernadette Devlin

Women Silence Matter Talk Bar Bored

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

Love Silence Story Think Strange

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