Quotes About Speech

Sometimes she can't find the right word, but she can find a word close to what she means. Anomia, the speech therapist calls

Just because the truth disturbs someone doesn't make speaking that truth hate speech.

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

He's practicing his Constitutional right to be a jackass.

C'est justement un privilège de l'âge de pouvoir dire ce que l'on veut

El orador estuvo muy bien. No dijo nada y lo vivaron. Era perfecto. Nosotros, los que deberíamos decir algo, aquí estamos como ves hablándonos bajito por miedo a que nos muelan a palos. El orador encaja mucho mejor que nosotros.

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously...

Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.

Miserable Aristotle, who gave them dialectics! He gave them the art of building in order to tear down, an art of slippery speech and crude arguments . . . which rejects everything and deals with nothing.15

Wackford tat nur wenige Dinge schnell, und sprechen gehörte nicht dazu. Er war fleißig, bemüht und stark wie ein junger Dockarbeiter, aber Geschwindigkeit war für ihn ein Fremdwort wie Frontispiz und Faksimile.

Shall I set up a city-wide broadcast so you may begin your reign with a nice rant?

In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

We're controlled more than any other professional sport. We're told what to wear, when to wear it, what we're allowed to say in our interviews.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

The DuBois Institute in the heart of Harvard is an extremely important political intervention and I'm delighted to be invited to speak here.

I will obviously exercise my freedom of speech because I live in India, not in Saudi Arabia and Iran; freedom of speech is an integral part of the Constitution of India and I believe in respecting in whatever is lawful in India.

It irritates me when Trump says what he does.

The Dutch are still allowed to speak critically about Islam, and resistance against Islamization is not a crime.

If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the issues.