"Into every life may come tragedy and triumph. Our goal is to meet both equally with serenity and radiant acquiescence. Yet even from the storm clouds of tragedy, rainbows can appear."
- Aleksandra Layland
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to anarchy. The greatest danger, I argued, was civil..."
- Howard Zinn
"It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carr..."
- Criss Jami
"Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. They are required merely to become accomplices in i..."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice."
- Maya Angelou
"If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity."
- Albert Einstein