Quotes About Silence

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy , was privacy --for their patrons and themselves.

After another long silence, bit by bit, realisation dawned upon Edmund and he became even paler than Hecate herself which was, in itself, a fantastic achievement. Adele Rose, Awakening.

I hope he doesn't know he just touched my leg.And nothing happened.

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

Those who say don't know, those who know don't say

Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.