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Baruch Spinoza: “The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”

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Rachel Naomi Remen: “The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”

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William Blake: “When thought is closed in caves, then love will show its roots in deepest hell.”

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Elie Wiesel: “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

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Rachel Naomi Remen: “Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.”

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Audre Lorde: “For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.”

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Faith Baldwin: “Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.”

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Colette: “To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.”

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Margaret Atwood: “A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. ”

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Audre Lorde: “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

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Dorothy Nevill: “The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

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Christina Rossetti: “Silence more musical than any song.”

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Ken Venturi: “There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. ”

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Cato the Elder: “I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.”

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T. S. Eliot: “And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. ”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Conversation is a game of circles. In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.”

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John Dryden: “But far more numerous was the herd of such
Who think too little and who talk too much.”

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Will Durant: “One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”

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Martin Niemoller: “When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church -- and there was nobody left to be concerned.” more

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Robert M. Hutchins: “A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.”

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Martin Niemoller: “First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

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Sally Berger: “You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut.”

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Martin Niemoller: “In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

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Thomas Merton: “It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.”

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Sam Rayburn: “No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

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Adrienne Rich: “Lying is done with words and also with silence.”

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Francis Bacon: “Silence is the virtue of fools.”

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Mark Twain: “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

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Bob Dylan: “I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.”

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