"<p></p> <p>But you also don't always have the right to remain silent; especially when the chatterer speaks, sooner or later you have to answer. Of course, nothing would be more attractive or comfortable than to be silent among people all the time, and to speak to the world only through your work - your work, which may be a book or a pair of decently sewn shoes, or even the fact of a patient and balanced existence. This would be the most beautiful thing, but life does not give the solution so cheaply. You have to listen, but not as one who is silent out of convenience or pride or contempt; you have no right to do so, because you are human, and your fellow human beings have a right to ask you for answers to their questions. No, you must listen as one who guards something. And indeed, he who listens responsibly always preserves something: a secret, a rank, the consciousness of human culture. But sometimes you must also speak, you must throw off the dark cloak of silence, you must step into the arena with a naked body, holding the just weapon of human combat, the truth. If the truth is denied, you have no right to remain silent.</p>"