As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Silence
Smiling with all the existence is Silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
Not everyone talks in words.
-Nema Al Araby
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Your silence gives consent.
-Plato
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.
-Steve Maraboli
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
