Speak Your Mind Quotes

If you say what you think, don't expect to hear what you like.

holding your tongue

Say what you have to say, not what you ought.

communication

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

conversation

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

communication unhappiness

Each time we don't say what we want to say, we're dying.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

lies

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

relationships

Silence gives consent.

To sin by silence when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.  The human race
Has climbed on protest.  Had no voice been raised
Against injustice, ignorance, and lust,
 The inquisition yet would serve the law,
And guillotines decide our least dispute.

protest