Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
Silent - Silence Quotes
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; if he were sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I […]
Silence is not golden; it is complicity.
God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He is dead. He spoke to us and is silent. We no longer have anything but his cadaver. Perhaps he slipped out of the world, somewhere else like the soul of a dead man. […]
When they came for the smokers I kept silent because I don’t smoke. When they came for the meat eaters I kept silent because I’m a vegetarian. When they came for the gun owners I kept silent because I’m a pacifist. When they came for the drivers I kept silent because I’m a bicyclist. They […]
Nothing is more useful than silence.
Great souls suffer in silence.
One of the greatest sounds of them all – and to me it is a sound – is utter, complete silence.
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind.
