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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon
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Paul Simon
American
Musician
Born:
Oct 13
,
1941
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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.
Good
Silence
People
Oppression
Bad People
Good People
Cruelty
Bad
Over
Ultimate
Tragedy
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
God
Nature
Silence
Noise
Moon
Grass
Stars
Trees
Sun
Find
See
Able
Restlessness
Touch
He
Souls
How
Friend
Move
Cannot
Found
Grows
Flowers
Need
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good
Silence
History
People
Bad People
Will
Good People
Clamor
Bad
Record
Period
Greatest
Tragedy
Social
Transition
Appalling
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
Confucius
Silence
True Friend
Betrays
Never
True
Friend
Who
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
Silence
History
Justice
Better
Evil
Made
Those
Possible
Has-Been
Indifference
Triumph
Voice
Could
Throughout
Most
Known
Been
Mattered
Inaction
Should
Acted
Who
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel
Silence
Neutrality
Oppressor
Victim
Sides
Tormented
Must
Take
Never
Encourages
Helps
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
Strength
Great
Silence
Source
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran
Teacher
Kindness
Silence
Strange
Ungrateful
Unkind
Those
Intolerant
Talkative
Learned
Am
Teachers
Toleration
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life
Silence
Learning
Yourself
Events
Mistakes
Everything
Touch
Given
Purpose
Know
Blessings
Learn
Within
Get
Us
Coincidences
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Great
Silence
Conversation
Arts
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