Quotes About Speech

Significant images render insights beyond speech, beyond the kinds of meaning speech defines. And if they do not speak to you, that is because you are not ready for them, and words will only serve to make you think you have understood, thus cutting you off altogether.

Mythology opens the world so that it becomes transparent to something that is beyond speech, beyond words—in short, what we call transcendence. Without that you don't have a mythology. Any system of thinking, ideologies of one kind or another, that does not open to transcendence cannot be classified or understood mythologically.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

If you must come out and say it, do it in dialog, not narration.

Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.

Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

If there ever could be a proper time for mere catch arguments, that time surely is not now. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Better remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

But I learned that ignorance is never revealed if one holds one's tongue. To speak is what removes all doubts.

Whichever way speech and language emerged in humans, it was a transition, with all those necessary but not sufficient pieces being nudged in one way or the other, by chance, by selection. The fact that it was a transition, not a revolution, means it took time.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

21Finally, don't pay attention to everything that is said, so that you may not hear your slave reviling you; 22for well you remember* the many times that you yourself have reviled others.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

There is no novel of world history, which is more wonderful than our party's development to its present greatness. Speech of March 20, 1934 in Munich

Dead Commander, enter into Valhalla now! Speech at Hindenburg's funeral in Tannenberg Monument, August 7, 1934

Con orgogliosa meraviglia commisuravo lo sviluppo del Reich al marciume dello Stato: mi indignava che in uno Stato il più idiota dei cittadini ha il diritto alla parola

The secret of the miracle of life will never reveal itself to the pale theoretician. He will always see amiss the mighty formative force of existence that he himself most sorely lacks, namely: willpower, boldness in making and carrying out decisions. Speech in the Berlin Zeughaus, Heroes' Memorial Day March 10, 1940

It was a sombre message that he gave that night, full of references to the Depression and the high unemployment rates. (No one was immune: even the palace had made drastic staff reductions.)

I believe in it so passionately because anywhere you look in the world, where governments become too big or become authoritarian, speech and expression is one of the first fundamental freedoms to go.