“Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.”
Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian religious leader
Abide as the Self
Building a Better Business (2005)
“Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.”
Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian religious leader
Abide as the Self
“It was the most disgusting speech I ever heard in my life.”
Rafidah Aziz (1943) Malaysian politician
comment on a controversial speech given by Al Gore at the same APEC summit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh0BO906vyI, in which he praised demonstrations in Malaysia protesting the arrest of Anwar Ibrahim as champions of democracy. <br class="br">Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things
“For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Quote in "Picasso", Hans L. C. Jaffe, Thames and Hudson Ltd
Attributed from posthumous publications
“America is the most magnanimous of all imperial powers that have ever existed.”
Dinesh D'Souza (1961) Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author
"What's So Great about America" http://www.hoover.org/research/whats-so-great-about-america, Hoover Digest (30 July 2002).
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)
Michael Gove (1967) British politician
Michael Gove admits he was lucky to avoid jail over cocaine use https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48572982, BBC News, 9 June 2019 <br class="br">2019
Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Horace Greeley (1811–1872) American politician and publisher
As quoted in New York Tribune (28 February 1860).
1860s
Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891) British freethinker, and radical politician
Speech at Hall of Science c.1880 quoted in An Autobiography of Annie Besant; reported in Edmund Fuller, Thesaurus of Quotations (1941), p. 398; reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
Attributed