Conspiracy Of Silence Quotes

#1. A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

John Lennon

#2. We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it.

Harvey Milk

#3. It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

Cynthia McKinney

#4. In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.

Czeslaw Milosz

#5. Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#6. Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.

Christabel Pankhurst

#7. Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

George Bernard Shaw

#10. When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

Terry Tempest Williams

#12. When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

Andre Brink