Keeping Silent Quotes

• In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Integrity, Evil

  "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, www.believermag.com. 1973.

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• I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

  Xenocrates

  Inspirational, Witty, Powerful

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• Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, God, Angel

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Buddhism

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.14, Penguin Books India

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• There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Challenges, Faults, Moral

  Oriana Fallaci (2002). “The Rage and the Pride”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

  Steve Forbes

  Eye, Slave Labor, Chinese

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.

  Saint Patrick

  Years, Laughing, Wish

  "The Confession". Translated by John Skinner, www.ccel.org.

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• When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

  Robert Walser

  Damage, Realizing, Wonderful

  Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

  Octavia Butler

  Bullying, Joining In, Laughing

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• My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse.

  Marco Roth

  Too Late, Stories, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Stupid, People, Silence

  Mary Jo Putney (2002). “The Spiral Path”, Berkley

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• I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.

  Elena Mukhina

  Neutrality, Elements, Saws

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