To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
Sidney Hook

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
Sam Mendes

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
Alfred Jarry

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Philip Pullman

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Zoltan Kodaly

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
Boyle Roche

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
Mark Helprin

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
Nellie Bly

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.
Joan Miro

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
Bruce Jackson

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
Alice Hamilton

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
Jonathan Demme