'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself. Peter Ackroyd
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. Margaret Atwood
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen keller
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 peopleMartin Luther King
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King
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
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.Rabindranath Tagore
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
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good peopleMartin Luther King