Quotes About Speech

Di siempre la verdad: piensa antes de hablar y escribe lo que digas después.

Your hair wants cutting," said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech. "You should learn not to make personal remarks," Alice said with some severity; "it's very rude.

Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

TIAs?" Crane said. "How extensive?" "Partial paralysis, slurred speech, lasting in each case less than two hours." "What were their ages?" "Late twenties and early thirties." "Really?" Crane frowned. "That seems awfully young for a stroke. Two strokes, at that. You did neurological workups?

The way we speak and the words we use have great power to discourage or to inspire.

A few pages in Mein Kampf are indeed worth reading, the pages, I mean, that relate to the orator and to the difference between the orator and the writer.

words of the reckless pierce like swords,             but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Proverbs 12:18, NIV)

The saber we've been entrusted to bear is not lifted with our hands; it is raised by our words.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

One who speaks 'completely' negative creates karmic obstructions (antray) and 'positive' does not create any obstruction (antray).

Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it.

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

Bem sei que os pobres só podem falar de dinheiro, mas falar de dinheiro nunca enriqueceu ninguém.

El ignorante ataca con la boca. El sabio se defiende con el silencio.

The negative propaganda of silence is probably more effective as an instrument of persuasion and mental regimentation than speech. Silence creates the condition in which such words as are spoken or written take most effect.

Cómo puedes hablar así? —¿Que cómo puedo? —repitió Bernard en tono meditabundo—. No, el verdadero problema es: «¿Por qué no puedo hablar?»

Rage was making him fluent

The more I think of it, there is something futile, mediocre, even (I am tempted to say) foppish about speech. By contrast, how the gravity of Nature and her silence startle you, when you stand face to face with her, undistracted, before a barren ridge or in the desolation of the ancient hills.