Myrtle Reed Quotes

Silence gives consent.

Your very silence shows you agree.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.

It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.

To be silent is to be passive.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

It's hard to misquote someone who doesn't say anything.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

To be silent is to be complicit.

A photo does not mean I agree with anything someone says.

So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.

Silence is the language of inertia.

Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.

Into a mouth shut flies flie not.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

I do, however, have tape over my eyepiece as well. What I think my peace is saying isn't, "Oh I have something to hide. I don't want you to look," it's more saying, "No thank you. I prefer you not look. I'm not giving you permission."

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.