Top 100 Remain Silent Quotes
#1. It's better to remain silent and give the impression of being foolish then to speak and remove all doubt.
Rami Belson
#2. To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.
Sue Monk Kidd
#3. I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.
Sadegh Hedayat
#4. You have the right to remain silent. Otherwise, anything you say might be misquoted and used against you.
Jill Shalvis
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.
Toni Morrison
#9. 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
#10. it is better to remain silent and be thought an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt'.
Craig Alanson
#11. Pride has never been a virtue. There are some occasions on which it is wise to remain silent.
Jeffrey Archer
#12. To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. 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
#14. If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.
Jess Walter
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. You are most like Christ, when you remain silent under attack.
Rick Warren
#18. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill
#19. Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.
Josef Pieper
#20. It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
Joshua Ferris
#21. You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. 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
#26. I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I'd rather remain silent
Arthur Rimbaud
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. 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
#34. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.
Elie Wiesel
#35. She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It's strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions.
Laura Kreitzer
#36. Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
Cornel West
#37. 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
#38. Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.
Ralph C. Smedley
#39. We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.
Peter T. King
#40. All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Edmund Burke
#41. Remain silent about the dead, and they'll never leave you in peace." Second,
Nina George
#42. We speak sweet intentions, but our hearts remain silent.
Renee Paule
#43. Honesty renders your heart defenceless, and lying fucks with your head. That's why I choose to remain silent and protect them both instead.
K.M. Golland
#44. Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.
Sherman Alexie
#46. Our hearts know what is in them, even if our mouths remain silent. And the world will know what it is, even when nothing remains in our hearts.
Paul Auster
#47. 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
#48. I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
#49. Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant
#50. It is better for a man to remain silent and appear a fool, then to open his mouth and remove all doubt.
Samuel Clemens
#51. Don't sin by letting anger control you. Think about it overnight and remain silent.
Anonymous
#52. Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
Azar Nafisi
#53. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Silence is death, and you, if you talk, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak out and die.
Tahar Djaout
#57. Not surprisingly, the socks remain silent, as was their legal right.
Tom Robbins
#58. Thus we might not know we have a sage at the table, for he will remain silent while the "experts" prattle on and on.
John Eldredge
#59. Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.
Simon Mainwaring
#60. It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
Maurice Switzer
#61. Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.
Mark Hart
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#65. After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
Nelson Mandela
#67. ...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.
Paulo Coelho
#68. I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the station will process your bones to help you confess.
Rohinton Mistry
#69. If you remain silent, the shame is yours. If you speak out the shame is his. Shout out as loud as you can
Philippa Sklaar
#71. It may seem sometimes, that it is hard to find the right words to say to someone. It is even harder to remain silent, until the right words come. Then it's easy.
Art Hochberg
#72. A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent
John Calvin
#73. Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
Vaclav Havel
#74. It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.
Muhammad
#75. Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.
Andy Stanley
#76. We can't remain silent on gender rights and personal freedoms.
Maajid Nawaz
#77. The sense of the world must lie outside the world ... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about ... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#78. One never knows when and why such people start talking; frequently they only open their mouths because they realize they haven't said anything yet, or because they're worried that if they continue to remain silent they will be regarded as insignificant.
Timur Vermes
#79. I had two options One was to remain silent and wait to be killed and the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.
Malala Yousafzai
#80. You can choose to create a drama and get what you acted for or remain silent and get what you planned for.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#81. It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.
Bruce R. McConkie
#82. Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.
Simon Raven
#83. Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent ...
Stefan Zweig
#84. One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
Stephen Dobyns
#85. In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
Martin Heidegger
#86. Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
Mason Cooley
#87. If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
Albert Einstein
#88. I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#89. 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
#90. Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism,
Max Horkheimer
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard ... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay.
Tom DeLay
#94. 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
#95. A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.
Joe Biden
#96. When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
James E. Faust
#97. I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
Tadao Ando
#98. A recent government survey found that 47 percent of all women report being the victims of either physical, emotional, sexual or economic violence. But 84 percent of those who are victims of domestic violence remain silent.
Patricia Espinosa
#99. One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent regarding capitalism should do the same.
Alain De Benoist
#100. Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.
PLO Lumumba
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