Do Not Remain Silent Quotes

#1. Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

Josef Pieper

#2. To me, Twitter often feels like shouting things into a two-way mirror that I know has people behind it, maybe even people I know, and they are definitely listening, but mostly remain perfectly silent.

Mira Gonzalez

#3. To remain silent is to give the impression that one has no opinions, that one wants nothing, and in certain cases it really amounts to wanting nothing.

Albert Camus

#4. In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Sometimes God remains silent to see if we'll remain faithful. The stillness exposed our intentions.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#6. If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

James Lee Burke

#7. I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I'd rather remain silent

Arthur Rimbaud

#8. The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.

Trey Gowdy

#9. We become equally responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong but remain silent because we think it is right.

Suzy Kassem

#10. Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?

Marguerite Duras

#12. I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

Darrell Hammond

#13. You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. the time is ripe to step out from the Twittersphere and engage with people rather than their profiles. It seems ridiculous that so many of us are happy to engage in virtual conversations with strangers, yet remain silent in a group of real people. What

The School Of Life

#15. God would never have granted women a voice if he intended for them to remain silent. God knew that Adam, and our world, would need the voice and influence of women.

Lisa Bevere

#16. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

Elie Wiesel

#17. She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It's strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions.

Laura Kreitzer

#18. Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

Ramana Maharshi

#19. When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#20. When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

Frank Herbert

#21. You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

Jacob Neusner

#22. Be true to Love.
Do not betray Her.
Then, on the day
that the forest of the mind
bursts into flames,
you will not run.
You will remain silent and still;
for this is when Love bears
Her sweetest fruit:
untouched Presence.

Mooji

#23. In a crime there is always a perpetrator and a victim. If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.

Vivien Spitz

#24. We need to turn the question around to look at the harasser, not the target. We need to be sure that we can go out and look anyone who is a victim of harassment in the eye and say, 'You do not have to remain silent anymore.

Anita Hill

#25. You plan to be a challenge, do you?"
Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.

Sarah MacLean

#26. To remain silent is out of the question for a strong and honest man.

Erik Larson

#27. Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.

Toussaint Louverture

#28. Pride has never been a virtue. There are some occasions on which it is wise to remain silent.

Jeffrey Archer

#29. It's better to remain silent and give the impression of being foolish then to speak and remove all doubt.

Rami Belson

#30. To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

Sue Monk Kidd

#31. I open my eyes
To my own mistake
I see all around me
Hands getting raized
And Questions remain
Silent ...

Tom Folsom

#32. I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.

Sadegh Hedayat

#33. Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#34. You have the right to remain silent. Otherwise, anything you say might be misquoted and used against you.

Jill Shalvis

#35. Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?" And

Elie Wiesel

#36. If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

Ronald Reagan

#38. In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

Toni Morrison

#39. I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You don't need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.

Suresh Raina

#40. it is better to remain silent and be thought an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt'.

Craig Alanson

#41. He had to ask these questions and then remain absolutely silent. Listening in silence was essential to making a comprehensive scan of a person's soul.

Nina George

#42. To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#43. It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

Saint Francis De Sales

#44. If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

Jess Walter

#45. Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#46. I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives, gently, when I hate,
who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing when I die.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#47. The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can.

Ali Khamenei

#48. The most innocent man's words will be used against him.

Kenneth Eade

#49. You are most like Christ, when you remain silent under attack.

Rick Warren

#50. Do you want to change the world?
Then change yourself first.
Do you want to change yourself?
Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

Sri Chinmoy

#51. It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

Joshua Ferris

#52. You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused.

Ljupka Cvetanova