Quote by Gerhard Kocher

The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.

The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybod

Summary

This quote suggests that it is beneficial for the "silent majority" to remain silent, highlighting the idea that it is sometimes better to maintain silence rather than speak out. By doing so, it implies that the majority should avoid engaging in controversies or conflicts, as this silence ultimately brings peace and harmony. This perspective reflects an opinion that increased peace and social cohesion can often be achieved by refraining from voicing opinions or participating in contentious discussions.

Topics

Democracy

By Gerhard Kocher

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them

... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

Funny Reading Humour

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young pe

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Poetry

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relativ

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Bruce Henderson

Business

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Intelligence

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a g

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.

Science People Purpose Environment Gifts Challenge

The truth has never been of any real value to any human bein

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Truth

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But w

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Faith

. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on th

. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances . . . . Is this not form?

Giacomo Puccini, from Talks with

Violins

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the rig

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Goals

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love i

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

Best

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - a

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

Government

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me t

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Music