A man who lives right and is right has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance but in silence is safety.

As an artist I come to sing but as a citizen I will always speak for peace and no one can silence me in this.

When I'm off the road my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature being in silence burning incense.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses not conclusions.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence and silence is full of music.

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music and you provide the silence.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays have you noticed?

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Choose silence of all virtues for by it you hear other men's imperfections and conceal your own.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Against the State against the Church against the silence of the medical profession against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past the woman of today arises.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another only a look and a voice then darkness again and a silence.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle progress without compassion wealth without work learning without silence religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

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.