Silence Quotes

For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity and pride. Every woman who has to sell her life for sex we condemn to a lifetime in prison. For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. For every woman infected by HIV, we destroy a generation.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Certainly Birmingham had its white moderates who disapproved of Bull Connor's tactics. Certainly Birmingham had its decent white citizens who privately deplored the maltreatment of Negroes. But they remained publicly silent.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

After centuries of relative silence and enforced acceptance, we adapted a technique of exposing the problem by direct and dramatic methods. We had confidence that when we awakened the nation to the immorality and evil of inequality, there would be an upsurge of conscience followed by remedial action.

Now, of course, one of the difficulties in speaking out today grows the fact that there are those who are seeking to equate dissent with disloyalty. It's a dark day in our nation when high-level authorities will seek to use every method to silence dissent.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

The traditional British view is that character is what matters in a general. They like a solid, simple man, with no newfangled nonsense about him. He should be preternaturally silent. If by chance he thinks at all he should not let this leak out, otherwise confidence would be destroyed.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.

Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Experience teaches that silence terrifies the most.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do.