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Tribute is very important... It's a pay-to-play from the bottom to the absolute top... [L]oyalty and silence are demanded in return.

— Karen Dawisha Is Putin’s Russia a Kleptocracy? (2015)

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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

Benedict of Nursia

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

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