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“Some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel, p. xii
“Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent (1875)
“He who believes in Allah and the Last Day should either utter good words or better keep silence; and he who believes in Allah and the Last Day should treat his neighbour with kindness and he who believes in Allah and the Last Day should show hospitality to his guest.”
— Muhammad, Sahih Muslim, 1:75
“Silence has weight. It’s not just between sounds—it is a sound.”
— Alexander Wright, Quiet Fire , (September, 2025).
“Sed taciti fecere tamen convicia vultus.”
— But still her silent looks loudly reproached me.
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
— George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, chapter 4, p. 51 (1900). First published in 1879.

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