Those Who Remain Silent Quotes

#1. Those who remain silent are responsible.

Edith Stein

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Josef Pieper

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

Joshua Ferris

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

Ljupka Cvetanova

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Alisa Hope Wagner

#12. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napoleon Hill

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

Arthur Rimbaud

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Elie Wiesel

#19. 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

#20. There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue
those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS
but they remain strangely silent ...

Bill Hicks

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Toni Morrison

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

Rami Belson

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

Sue Monk Kidd

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

Tom Folsom

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

Sadegh Hedayat

#28. 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

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

Jill Shalvis

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Rick Warren

#34. 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

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

Craig Alanson

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

Jeffrey Archer

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#38. 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

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

Jess Walter

#40. 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

#41. 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

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

Kenneth Eade