All Fall Down
Heavy Rotation (2008)
“Be honey to those who seek your friendship, but deadly poison to those who dare attack you.”
Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906–1975) King of Saudi Arabia
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/26/archives/faisal-rich-and-powerful-led-saudis-into-20th-century-and-to-arab.html
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
Lyrical Intermezzo, 57; in Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-five Poems (1917) Selected and translated by Louis Untermeyer, p. 73
“Every government, our own included, fights with propaganda as deadly as poison gas.”
Everett Dean Martin (1880–1941)
Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 45
“Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Shadowfever
“When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.”
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Comprehension
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
“The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.”
Edgar Lee Masters book Spoon River Anthology
Source: Spoon River Anthology
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
