Civilization Quote by Thomas E. Mann

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.”

— Thomas Mann

Speech is civilization itself.

— Thomas Mann

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

— Jeanette Winterson

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

— Ramana Maharshi

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

— David Malouf

Silence is also speech

— Proverb

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,…

— Rumi

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

— Eduardo Galeano

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

— Gordon B. Hinckley