Quotes About Silence

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

She knew enough to recognize that memories were crowding in, and there was nothing he could do. They wouldn't let him speak. She would never know what scenes were driving that turmoil.

For 1, 300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.

I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.

What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.

You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it.

Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only Silence. Indifference.

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

It was just enough to sit there without words.

Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.