The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
Angelina Grimke

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
Walter Elliot

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Blaise Pascal

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Charlotte Bronte

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
Christopher Lasch

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
Thomas Starr King

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
Michel De Certeau

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.
Justin Timberlake

The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
Pierre Bourdieu

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.
Saul Williams

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
Nicholas D. Kristof

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.
Peter Sarsgaard

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
Ursula K. LeGuin

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
Simon Wiesenthal

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
Joyce Maynard

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe