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What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.

— Simone Weil Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

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

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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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