#silence

Silence is better than unmeaning words. ↗

— Pythagoras

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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

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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

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent. ↗

— Plato

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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

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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

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There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Helen Keller

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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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