I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.
It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.
I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.
Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.