Quotes About Communication

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

Podcasting is great. Total freedom.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.