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 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 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

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Thomas Jefferson

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Albert Camus