Quotes About Speech

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

Syllables govern the world.

We have a First Amendment right to burn the flag as symbolic speech. The Constitution protects that right. To spend time and effort on this is ridiculous.

You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.

In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.

You talk like winter rain.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in religious institutions almost every day of his adult life but never once told a congregation or gathering there for whom to vote.

Even a first-year law student knows that you can't curtail the right of one person to speak because other people get disorderly.

He growled. "You know quite well that that locution is vile.

that the professors are at it again—but then they always are—oh, yes, you can count on the professors. One of them made a speech last night at Boston, and if you have anything left from last week's pay you'd better hide it under the mattress. He wants us not only to feed and clothe everybody on earth, but educate them also.…

There are various reasons for keeping your mouth shut, but the best one is that you have nothing to say.

It was a day when I was preparing a speech to be delivered in praise of the Emporor; there would be a lot of lies in the speech and they would be applauded by those who knew that they were lies." The Confessions of St. Augustine

Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God's essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?

you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage. Every time you talk about what you don't love, you are adding another bar to the cage and you are locking yourself away from all the good.

The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.

Psittacus vbs alirum nmina discam: Hoc didic per m dcere, "Caesar, hav!