„Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.“

— George Orwell

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„I never said nothing…""I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!“
— Terry Pratchett
„Silence is a true friend who never betrays.“
— Confucius
„This sound has its own silence; all living things are involved in this sound of silence. To be attentive is to hear this silence and move with it.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti