Quotes About Silence

I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses.

Master: When a human being asks 'WHO AM I?', the honest answer is eternal silence.Disciple: Do we make noise to feel that silence, Master?

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. "There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.

I can hear the roar of women's silence

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.