Quotes About Speech

Parrots can remember and repeat words and speak like human beings. But they do not understand what they are saying. As far as they are concerned, these are only sounds that humans have taught them to say.

Words -- as I speak or write them -- make a path on which I walk.

If we have learned to be silent before the Word, we will also learn to manage our silence and our speech during the day.

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Ah! Fount of compassion, my root teacher, Lord Chenrezi, You are my only protector! The six-syllable mantra, essence of your speech, is the sublime Dharma; From now on I have no hope but you!

The American Revolution was characterized by three basic freedoms: economic freedom or capitalism, political freedom or constitutional democracy, and freedom of speech and religion. These are the freedoms that, in their original form, American conservatives seek to conserve.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Let thy speech be better than silence or be silent

?uvaj se re?i, sine! ?uvaj ih se više no svega ljudskog.

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants. Yeah! Say that five times real fast.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

Talk without effort is nothing.

The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

I stopped speaking when I realized I was no longer using any verbs or nouns, or making any sense

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Never speak more clearly than you think.