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„What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.“
„Your silence gives consent.“
„Somebody in Germany [the German artist Joseph Beuys, who frequently visited America to discuss and to do performances] has been talking about my ‘silence’, saying that it is overrated. What does that mean? [this quotes you find also in Joseph Beuys’ quotes on Wikiquote], he himself heard this ‘rumor’ from several American artists! (Joseph Beuys continued: ‘I am convinced that he [= Duchamp] knew very well what it meant. If he was unsure about it, he could have written me a letter’).“
„Well, this man [the T. V. interviewer of Jasper Johns, ] wanted to know why I stopped painting [the so-called famous ‘Silence of Duchamp’]…. and he had said [it was] because of dealers and money and various reasons. Largely moralistic reasons…. But you know; it wasn’t like that. It’s like you break a leg; you don’t mean to do it.“
„There was a silence. Outside, and most unfortunately, a boy could be heard calling to another boy: ‘Piss off, Cowie.’ Stern looks were fixed on Woolton.“
„Dialogue and monologue are silenced. Bundled together, men march without Thou and without I, those of the left who want to abolish memory, and those of the right who want to regulate it: hostile and separated hosts, they march into the common abyss.“
„You guys are all into that born again thing, which is great. We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the kingdom of God, I can tell you that you just have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy too…[And he paused in the awkward silence. ] But I guess that’s why God invented highlighters, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.“
„I must tell you that I was always afraid of the fury with which I loved you. It overwhelmed me. I thought it beyond comprehension, therefore my silence.“
„My feelings for you shame me into silence.“
„There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.“
„Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.“
„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.“
„Her childhood, then her adolescence, had taught her patience, hope, silence and the easy manipulation of the weapons and virtues of all prisoners.“
„To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.“
„Just because there’s a silence it doesn’t mean that nothing is going on.“
„Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.“
„There is so much silence between the words,you say. You say, The sensed absenceof God and the sensed presenceamount to much the same thing,only in reverse.“
„Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.“
„Music for entertainment … seems to complement the reduction of people to silence, the dying out of speech as expression, the inability to communicate at all. It inhabits the pockets of silence that develop between people molded by anxiety, work and undemanding docility.“
„In America I was liberated from a certain naïve belief in culture and attained the capacity to see culture from the outside. To clarify the point: in spite of all social criticism and all consciousness of the primacy of economic factors, the fundamental importance of the mind—“Geist”—was quasi a dogma self-evident to me from the very beginning. The fact that this was not a foregone conclusion, I learned in America, where no reverential silence in the presence of everything intellectual prevailed.“
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