‘The World Is Rotten Because of Silence’: Evil Triumphs When Good Is Silent

“That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops.” —Jesus Christ (Matt. 10:27)

“We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.” —St. Catherine of Siena

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.” —W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”

The good have been silent too long while evil screamed and screeched and filled the country with their clamor. Those who are loud and unyielding will win the struggle, and so America is on the brink of disintegration because the public square was overtaken by perverts and tyrants while good men were silent.

Don’t rock the boat, we were told. Keep your job, earn that promotion, don’t upset your relative, don’t lose a friend, don’t make yourself a target, don’t lose the chance for that scholarship or opportunity. Compromise is the essence of politics and diplomacy and society. And then we woke up one morning and discovered that evil had taken over our government and institutions, and we asked ourselves why?