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Conspiracy of silence   /kənspˈɪrəsi əv sˈaɪləns/   Listen
Conspiracy of silence

noun
1.
A conspiracy not to talk about some situation or event.





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"Conspiracy of silence" Quotes from Famous Books



... recognition has probably been because the merely physical is less absorbing to me than to most. Mental and emotional interest in passion has absorbed me greatly, but the merely physical has sunk into what I call its natural place of subordination. Nature is kind. It is our 'conspiracy of silence' which ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... laugh, but we could far rather weep at this melancholy decadence of a great intellect. M. Comte used to reproach his early English admirers with maintaining the "conspiracy of silence" concerning his later performances. The reader can now judge whether such reticence is not more than sufficiently explained by tenderness for his fame, and a conscientious fear of bringing undeserved discredit on the noble speculations of ...
— Auguste Comte and Positivism • John-Stuart Mill


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