„What was the U.S. reaction to the meeting in Geneva? The U.S. boycotted the meeting… and that has the usual consequence, it means the meeting is null and void, silence in the media.“

— Noam Chomsky

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„We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.“
— Ram Dass
„Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?“
— Federico Fellini
„There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before;The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more;On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.“
— Robert Browning
„All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Silence is argument carried out by other means.“
— Ernesto Che Guevara