The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotations
Silence
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
-Nicholas Sparks
"Nights in Rodanthe"
Silence is a source of great strength.
-Lao Tzu "Lao Tzu"
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
-Criss Jami
Smiling with all the existence is Silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sometimes silence can be the loudest thing.
-Ellie Mathews
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
-Henry David Thoreau
