Quotes About Speech

mellowing influences of elocution teachers

Which do you think is more important, Binti- jobs of freedom of speech?' Binti thought for a moment. 'It depends on how poor you are.

Nikt bardziej nie lubi mówi? ni? jÄ…kaÅ'y, nikt bardziej nie lubi chodzi? ni? chromi.

Monsieur me prépare le plus triste avenir; que deviendrai-je quand je n'aurai plus rien à dire? - Tu recommenceras. - Jacques, recommencer! Le contraire est écrit là-haut; et s'il m'arrivait de recommencer, je ne pourrais m'empêcher de m'écrier: Ah! si ton grand-père t'entendait!... et je regretterais le bâillon.

Broadcast on, speech: – to prepare. The right length. Know when to stop. Time it. Write it out word for word. Make it sound as if extempore & from the heart. So write for reading, – to be spoken. Slower than ordinary conversation. Go slow. Speak out of your own experience, a picture in words, – you are painting a picture. You must be absolutely sincere. A little humour if possible. Some detail the audience does not know & some details they know.... Today

There are two ways to choke off free expression. We've already discussed one of them: clamp down on free speech and declare some topics off-limits. That strategy is straightforward enough. The other, more insidious way to limit free expression is to try to change the very language people use.

Humans don't really like freedom of speech, Lukianoff told them, they like to say they like it. And they definitely like their won freedom of speech. They don't necessarily like your freedom of speech that much

The majority does not need a special amendment. The only reason you have a First Amendment is to protect the rights of the minorities, of people who aren't the majority. People who aren't in power.

If there's a violent mob on campus, it isn't Ben Shapiro's fault - he's just someone coming to campus to talk about ideas. Mob violence is the mob's fault

The main vehicle of both blessings and curses is words. Such words may be spoken or written or merely uttered inwardly.

I certainly deprecate any comparison between Herr Hitler and Napoleon: I do not wish to insult the dead. Winston Churchill, speech at Harrow in December 1940

He turned to face the assembled clansmen, raised his arms and greeted them with a ringing shout. "Tulach Ard!" "Tulach Ard!" the clansmen gave back in a roar. The woman next to me shivered. There was a short speech next, given in Gaelic. This was greeted with periodic roars of approval, and then the oath-taking proper commenced.

it does not escape me that one can wield Sword or Musket only upon one Enemy at a time, while Words may be employed upon any Number.

They had learned not to expect him to talk until he had shaved; words came hard after a month's solitude. Not that he could think of nothing to say; it was more that the words inside formed a logjam in his throat, battling each other to get out in the short time he had. He needed those few minutes of careful grooming to pick and choose, what he would say first and to whom.

One does not arrest Voltaire.

No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything.

I am not eloquent.

I think people have to look at it from a certain view. I say things because, at the end of the day, I can say whatever I want.

I get paid to talk politics, which I've done my entire life and I would do for free anyway.

Everyone has an opinion, and everyone should be entitled to say whatever they want.

People are entitled to say what they feel sometimes.

Everybody is entitled to an opinion and we should be able to express it. This is what democracy is all about. If an issue is troubling your heart, you should be able to say it.

In a democracy, you have the right to say what you want, but don't forget about equality: are you putting someone else down by saying it?

I try to write an essay every time I speak.