Quotes About Speech

At a feast, do not give a speech about how everyone should eat. Only eat as you should. Socrates never made a spectacle of himself or put on an air of authority. In philosophical conversations, follow his example—stay mostly silent; ask questions and listen intently. If anyone calls you ignorant and says you know nothing, be sure that you are now a true student of philosophy.

If you have nothing better to do than praise me for it, then my speech was a failure.

Speak only what is useful and beneficial.

The nightmare scenario is one in which corporate monopolism and statist power-seeking, always natural allies, feed back into each other and create rationales for increasing regulation, repression, and criminalization of digital speech.

Si ce que tu dis n'est pas plus beau que le silence, alors tais-toi

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what he thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Silence is golden; speech is silver

Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.

The Verbalist, 1894

She insulted conservatives and cowards every time she opened her mouth

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

the liberal believes in freedom in all areas except for his criticism.

God created for you two eyes and two ears but one tongue so that you say half what you see and hear.

The more wine gets through your mouth the more silly words come out of it.

Who taught you to swear first? Who burst your head wide open with a sentence? Whose linguistic tics have you ingested, do you know, bust out without thinking

the journalist asked Zachariadis why he gave an anti-British speech to a crowd of 50,000 left-wing Greeks in Thessaloniki: "Is it because you want the British to leave Greece?" Zachariadis replied, "Yes," and Springe commented: "Are you aware of the consequences?" To which the communist leader said: "I am aware that a civil war, to which we are aspiring, shall follow. It will be a question of two months. After that everything will be alright."73

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care.

The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.

Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.

The best a man can do is to remain silent, because any time he prates on about God, he is committing the sin of lying. The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

Didn't anyone ever tell you that the mouth is the front gate of all misfortune?

I like to mimic accents. I don't even know if that's a talent. That's just a weird thing that I do.