Just Remain Silent Quotes

#1. I want to thank him for not making me say a word, and getting it all the same, but I just remain silent as the sun pours heat and light, as if from a pitcher, all over our bewildered heads.

Jandy Nelson

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

Jeffrey Archer

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. 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

#5. I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#6. Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Azar Nafisi

#7. Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

Earl Warren

#8. Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Mason Cooley

#9. Let your work speak for itself:
If poor, it will remain silent.
If average, it will whisper.
If good, it will talk.
If great, it will shout.
If genius, it will sing.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#11. No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

Emil Cioran

#12. Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

Edward Abbey

#13. Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

Victor Hugo

#14. To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Elie Wiesel

#15. 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

#16. 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