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“Ethics is not about avoiding wrong; it is about daring to do what is right when silence is safer.” K. P.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

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My deepest human longing is/ Not to control the world and people/ But to control and realise myself!

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Time brings everything to light and reveals the true worth and meaning of everyone and everything.

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To relish life and to relish death/ And to be grateful for both/ And to be open for more/ In both death and life.

Death: Live It! (2005)

Freedom is basically a spiritual longing/ That can only be filled by a spiritual power.

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Freedom is the flow of life/ It is to be part of it/ And to let life flow through you.

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

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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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