Harvey Milk Quotes

We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it.

Harvey Milk

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• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

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

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Silence
  • Write
  • Own

• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Silence
  • Same

• I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Love
  • Silence
  • Listen

• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence

• To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Silence

• And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter earth has stopped the ears.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Earth
  • Silence

• Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• In secret we metIn silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years,How should I greet thee?With silence and tears.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Silence

• Those who saw him hushed. On Church Street. Liberty. Cortlandt. West Street. Fulton. Vesey. It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Beautiful
  • Church
  • Silence

• I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Silence

• Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Great
  • Important
  • Silence

• David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • Life
  • Together
  • Marriage

• What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.

  

  James P. Carse
  • God
  • Experience
  • Silence

• My hobby is silence.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Silence

• Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Work
  • Silence

• [Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Done
  • Winning
  • Lottery

• We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it.

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Silence
  • Truths
  • Gays