It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
-Victor Hugo
Quotations
Silence
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Not everyone talks in words.
-Nema Al Araby
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.
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Your silence gives consent.
-Plato
Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.
-Nema Al Araby
Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.
-Richard Yates
"A Good School"
