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Quotes About Speech

We have to distinguish illiberal societies from places where freedom of speech and assembly, media pluralism, and the protection of minorities are under attack. These political rights are not just about liberalism (or the rule of law); they are constitutive of democracy as such.
~ Jan-Werner Müller
Sananvapaus on kalanvapautta: meri olla ja uida ja väistää.
~ Jarkko Laine
I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.
~ Jarvis Cocker
I don't have much to say to that. I mean, I have a lot to say, so I don't say anything.
~ Jasmine Paul
All too often, women fall in love with a man's speech and overlook who he actually is. If you think you might already be dating such a guy, take a step back and ask yourself: "Is my boyfriend doing what's best for me, or just doing what feels good for him?
~ Jason Evert
Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action.
~ Jason Evert
en el sur de España aún se mantendría, en mayor o menor medida, la distinción entre /b/ y /v/.
~ Javier Álvarez
La pronunciación de la v como labiodental no ha existido nunca en español.
~ Javier Álvarez
Por ejemplo, el español actual no admite el grupo [s] + consonante a principio de palabra, por lo que la mayoría de los hispanohablantes que no se hayan formado específicamente en ello pronunciarán el inglés still [st?l] como [es?til], es decir, insertarán una [e] para hacer la combinación de sonidos admisible, igual que es admisible «estar» [es?ta?] (del latín stare [?sta?e]); esto es un fenómeno conocido como prótesis vocálica.
~ Javier Álvarez
Callar y hablar son formas de intervenir en el futuro.
~ Javier Marías
Tenía una fuerte tendencia a disertar y a discursear y a la digresión
~ Javier Marías
Uno olvida mucho más lo que sale de su boca que lo que entra por sus oídos
~ Javier Marías
Psalm 107:2 says, "Let the redeemed of the LORD say so." The Scriptures tell us that death and life are in the power of our words (Prov. 18:21). Think about that—death and life are released by what we say. Make sure the words you speak are life-producing words. S
~ Dutch Sheets
This is what language is: a habitual grief. A turn of speech for the everyday and ordinary abrasion of losses such as this: which hurts just enough to be a scar And heals just enough to be a nation.
~ Eavan Boland
If man spoke only when he had something worth while to say and said that as quickly as possible, ninety-eight per cent of the human race might as well be dumb, thereby establishing a heavenly harmony from pate to tonsil.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
It was before him again in its completeness--the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which never arrived at wit and the freedom of act which never made for romance.
~ Edith Wharton
he plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate
~ Edith Wharton
Real civilisation means an education that extends to the whole of life, in contradistinction to that of school or college: it means an education that forms speech, forms manners, forms taste, forms ideals, and above all forms judgment.
~ Edith Wharton
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
~ Edmund Burke
Madison Square Garden—of all places—to open his campaign on 12 August
~ Edmund Morris
Con la lengua se puede llegar a cualquier parte o a ninguna.
~ Eduardo Mendicutti
Joseph. de Bell. Judaico, l. ii. c. 16. The oration of Agrippa, or rather of the historian, is a fine picture of the Roman empire.]
~ Edward Gibbon
2. As with most of the Bill of Rights, the free speech/press guarantee applies equally to federal and state governments, which includes local governments as well as all branches of each government.
~ Edwin Meese III
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
~ Albert Camus