#silence

Speech is the small change of silence. ↗

— George Meredith

#silence #small #speech

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#cannot #consider #day #directed #evidence

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America? ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#because #current #defend #difficult #environment

Music is a complete evocation – like a smell. It can bring an entire memory and feeling back to you in a rush. Much more complete than even a photograph. You allow yourself a certain visual distance with photos – not music. It envelopes you – there’s no way to escape it. It’s a great test of sensitivity – the degree of reaction to music. I use it all the time. I call it my ‘Music Test.’ People today don’t want to hear the truth. They’re really afraid of tranquility and silence – they’re afraid they might begin to understand their own motivations too well. They keep a steady stream of noise going to protect themselves, to build a wall against the truth. Like African natives, beating on their drums, rattling their gourds, shaking the bells to scare off evil spirits. As long as there’s enough noise, there’s nothing to fear – or hear. But they will listen. Times are changing. ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

#noise #silence #tranquility #change

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#art #chattering #hands #i #ignorance

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#lies #often #silence #told

It is not many things that modern psychology agress upon, but all the different approaches of psychology agrees on one thing: that people in groups become more stupid. Individually people are more intelligent, because they have to take their own responsibility, but in a group they do not have to take the same responsibility. The two basic power strategies to try to manipulate and gain control over another person are: silencing and attacking. Silencing means to not listen to, to exclude or ignore and not respect a person. Attack can both mean to attack a person directly or to try to discredit a person through lies, to ridicule a person or by spreading malicious rumours. All organizations are more or less dysfunctional. In a dysfunctional group, the members of the group play three different roles: agressor, denier and victim. The agressor is the role that attack and ridicule people, the denier never knows what is going on, there is “no body at home”, and the victim is the resultat of these two roles. It is always easier to follow a group without awareness, than to follow your own heart, to trust your own intelligence, love, truth, silence and creativity. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#awareness #creativity #denier #dysfunctional-organizations #ego

To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence. ↗

— Jonathan Messinger

#loneliness #silence #violence #life

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given. ↗

— Michael Jones

#michael-jones #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes #life

In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all is quiet. In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools. ↗

— Alan Paton

#silence #strike #life