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I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know there are some people terrified of the bomb, but there are others terrified to be seen carrying a Modern Screen magazine. Experience teaches that silence terrifies the most.

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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Interview published with the Biograph album set (1985)

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around — the music and the ideas.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)

Democracy don’t rule the world,/You’d better get that in your head,/This world is ruled by violence,/But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

No Direction Home (2005)

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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?

Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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