silence

Speaking of the press in 1978 before an audience of Harvard graduates, Alexander Solzhenitsyn said,

"...we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: 'everyone is entitled to know everything.' But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1978
"A World Split Apart"