Silence Argument Quotes

#1. Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

PZ Myers

#2. Silence is the invisibility of talking. I'd take half an argument over half a silence any day. And I'd take peace and quiet over a full-blown argument any other day, unless it's Tuesday.

Will Advise

#3. To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Saib Tabrizi

#4. Silence is the best defence for any argument.

Sukant Ratnakar

#5. Silence is an arguement hard to refute

Anonymous

#6. Silence is an endangered quantity in our time ... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality - a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Krista Tippett

#7. If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.

Johnny Rich

#9. The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Charles Simmons

#11. Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent

Thomas Hobbes

#12. My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

Edie Falco

#13. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
[Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)]

Louis D. Brandeis

#14. My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

Edward W. Said

#15. Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

Joyce Rachelle

#16. I mean, at least with an argument, you know what's happening. Or have some idea. Silence is ... it could be anything.

Sarah Dessen

#17. Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

Charles Caleb Colton

#18. Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument ...

Gioachino Rossini

#19. If you admit that to silence your opponent by force
is to win an intellectual argument,
then you admit the right to silence people by force.

Hans Eysenck

#20. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Francis Beaumont

#21. Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#22. Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Josh Billings

#23. A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

Robert Breault

#24. Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

#25. I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

Christopher Hitchens

#26. After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Mason Cooley