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Quotes About Speech

Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.
~ Nell Scovell
I'm not really great at writing things down unless for a roast or a particular event.
~ Jim Norton
We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.
~ Robert Webb
People keep saying you can't satirize Trump because he's beyond satire, but it's not difficult to just let him out and let him walk upon the stage and say his own words.
~ Howard Jacobson
The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.
~ Penn Jillette
If I am doing a speech at a Labour party meeting - I think I have done every constituency - I'll look for a happy face, and talk to that face. In the Commons, with all the anger, I'll fix on a blank panel above their heads.
~ Dennis Skinner
My use of language is part and parcel of my message.
~ Theo Van Gogh
There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
~ Floyd Abrams
Speech controversies' will come and go as they always have, but our countries' shared values remain and Congress' bipartisan support for a strong U.S.-Israel partnership is ironclad.
~ Ted Lieu
I was playing Russell Long, the senator from Louisiana. I had 12 speech teachers watching me. All the other passengers on the airplane were speech teachers, and every time I got it wrong, one of the speech teachers would jump up and correct it.
~ Walter Matthau
Our 'theological' musings can thus be called a/theological insomuch as they acknowledge that we must still speak of God (theology, as traditionally understood) while also recognizing that this speech fails to define God (a/theology).
~ Peter Rollins
I am absolutely a believer. Faith and life are synonymous functions. If you don't believe, you can't finish a sentence, for example. Speechlessness is the clearest sign of depression. In this respect, depression and disbelief converge.
~ Peter Sloterdijk
The Colonel grunted. "In my experience, those things don't have to try to scare the shit out of anyone. If she wanted you dead or broken, you would be. Vampires have—idiomatic speech patterns. You may have simply misunderstood her." "She called me a cold cut.
~ Peter Watts
Don't lecture me in my own field! We've got language and speech centers hardwired into our brains. That gives us a common starting point. Gels don't have anything like that. Speech might just be one giant conditioned reflex to them.
~ Peter Watts
This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, and keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.
~ Peter Watts
This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.
~ Peter Watts
I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.
~ Petra Nemcova
That was the longest run-on sentence I've ever heard in my entire life. Did you even take a breath in between words there?
~ Phil Brooks
I keep thinking he can't be all bad ... and then he opens his mouth .
~ Phil Foglio
People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.
~ Phil McGraw
Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
God is love. When people claim to speak for God, there should be love in their words.
~ Philip Gulley
On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes. My Crescent City Is where your speech alone is understood
~ Philip Larkin
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
~ Pierre Beaumarchais