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“Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.”

Language Silence Violence Source Integrity Universal Excellence Metaphor Working It Formal Silence Is Mute

Author:Ihab Hassan

“A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.”

Ifs Heart Turns Waiting Water Silence Fire Violence Creation Terrible Rings Forests Burning Instant Lakes Pool Fearful Flash Unafraid Burning Heart

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.”

Littles Suffering Heaven Silence Quality Violence Miracle Accomplished Vulgar Observing

Author:Pierre Corneille

“I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.”

Thinking Self Strong Silence Violence Aggressive Mania Perpetuating

Book:Break No Bones: A Novel

Source: Break No Bones: A Novel

“And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”

World Trying Forget Poor Silence Rich Violence Events Conflict Painful Celebrate Division Gaps Congo Rich And Poor Inexplicable Outburst

Book:King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Source: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

“Silence creates it's own violence.”

Silence Violence

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“Our silence is deafening and deadly.”

Silence Violence Silence Is Domestic Violence

Author:James Brown

“...science and violence turned silence to rage.”

Silence Violence Rage

Author:Emily Saliers

“It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme left, searched their consciences, mustered their moral and physical courage, shed their intimidated silence, and declare their consciences.”

People Left Silence Moral Violence Conscience Extremes Rejects Shed Intimidated Physical Courage

Book:Declaration of conscience

Source: Declaration of conscience

“Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that`s been to ignore or to rally around. And that`s something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we`re ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Ends Culture Silence Break Violence Wall Opposites Police Blue Decades Police Violence

Author:Hakeem Jeffries