Quotes About Speech

What you say about me, my family, and on my social media says a lot more about your character than it does mine.

The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

Don't like flag-burning? Fine. Hate flag-burning? Me too! The thing is, though, hating something doesn't always mean that the answer is to call on government powers to ban it - and, in fact, I'd say that that is rarely the best solution, especially when it comes to speech.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.

Sir Mark Turner, " he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath.

All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

By relying primarily on voluntary co-operation and private enterprise, in both economic and other activities, we can insure that the private sector is a check on the powers of the governmental sector and an effective protection of freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought.

To change the world, we need an "I have a dream" speech, not an "I have a complaint" speech.

the former free-floating with vowels, the latter fortressed by consonants.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the mere fact even that they communicated by means of speech, was worth noting and proclaiming.

When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech and democratic society are called into question.

It's dangerous talking for Jesus. You get carried away almost immediately.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Make it a rule of your life to use your Tongue for high purposes alone. Resolve to speak in no way of any man or woman unless you can speak of the good qualities of that man or woman. No one ever gained Happiness out of injuring the Feelings or Character of someone else. No one ever failed to get Happiness by speaking well of other people.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

Silence makes even idiots seem wise for a minute.

Hablar es de necios; callar es de cobardes; escuchar es de sabios.

Cuando sólo se habla por hablar, poco se piensa y aún menos se hace.

Brilhante discurso - comentou Martín. - Histórico. Cada vez que esse homem fala, a história do pensamento no ocidente realiza uma revolução copernicana.