Silent Quotes

It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.

Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
- Silent
- Injustice
- Racial
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Baruch Spinoza
- World
- Men
- Silent

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

Socrates
- Know
- Cease
- Discord
To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

Seneca the Younger
- Silent
- Tongue
If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.

Vladimir Nabokov
- Beast
- Chairs
- Crushed
I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

Sami Gayle
Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

Bryan Adams
- Dream
- Caught
- Scream
'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.

Taylor Swift
- Up
- Me
- Relationship