Quotes About Speech

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

Today, it felt like time should be measured by how much of the future she had left, and needed to be counted forward. She felt proud listening, as if somehow Jonathan Parish's speech reflected on her, as if she could take credit for some part of it, for him.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

No one is exempt from speaking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly

Animals cannot speak and understand English

You can speak. What other animal on the planet can speak? The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is the tool of magic. But like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you. One edge is the misuse of the word, which creates a living hell.

Be impeccable with your words

Be impeccable with your word.

The first agreement is to be impeccable with your word.

But like a sword with two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you.

I don't like the news on the radio. It's always read by girls of some sort who pronounce the place names incomprehensibly. What's more, one in three of them has a slight speech defect, as though such ones are selected deliberately.

This whole speech, extremely silly, tactless and probably politically dangerous, made Pavel Iosifovich shake with rage, but, strange as it might seem, it could be seen from the eyes of the crowd of customers that had gathered that it had aroused sympathy in very many people!

The constitution did indeed guarantee freedom of speech, but the laws punished anything that could be considered an attack on state security

She was like Dubcek, who made a thirty-second pause in the middle of a sentence; she was like her country, which stuttered, gasped for breath, could not speak

Tvoja prošlost se krije u tvom ?utanju, tvoja sadašnjica u tvom govoru, a tvoja budu?nost u tvojim pogrešnim koracima. Buku je lako napraviti. Napravi, ako možeš, tišinu!

I love being verbal in films.

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do?

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

Akthent on thee latht thyllable.