“Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear.”
— Paul Beatty, book The Sellout
Source: The Sellout
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Paul Beatty6
American writer 1962Related quotes
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Variant: I shall assume that your silence gives consent
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Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Sometimes attributed to Lincoln since a 1950 speech of Douglas MacArthur citing him as its author, this is actually from a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Misattributed
“To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.”
Protest, contained in "Poems of Problems", pp. 154–55 (1914). This quotation is often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln.
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 131
“One must not fear the words anymore when one consented to the things.”
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987) French writer
On ne doit plus craindre les mots lorsqu'on a consenti aux choses.
Alexis (1929)
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
"The Beauty of the World" (c.1725), from the notebook The Images of Divine Things, The Shadows of Divine Things, The Language and Lessons of Nature (published 1948).