Quotes by Silence For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed. Anthony Daniels political silence law These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. Anthony de Mello silence compassion race Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. Anthony de Mello silence self sound When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence. Anthony de Mello dear silence speak My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. Anthony Doerr pockets language silence Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them. Anthony Jeselnik silence talking mean I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams. Antoine de Saint-Exupery gleam desert silence The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections. Antoine Rivarol avoiding silence vices Silence never yet betrayed any one! Antoine Rivarol betrayed silence The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible. Anton Chekhov silence unhappy men Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased. Anton Chekhov silence expression children Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know. Anton Yelchin uncomfortable silence culture A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. Antonio Porchia silence noise A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life. Anuj voice silence men Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. Archibald MacLeish liberty freedom silence Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery records silence photography It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny. Archibald Rutledge destiny silence stars The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness. Ariel Gore silence people world The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy. Aristotle single silence men The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it, like looking up at a limitless sky. That boundary-less place inside you is your own consciousness, your awareness. When you relax into it, you realize that it's also full - it is everything. You realize this presence is what you really are: Love. Arjuna Ardagh silence wisdom sky «56789101112131415»
