Quotes About Speech

tratemos de imaginarnos lo que será un mitin político del futuro. El candidato (si es que cabe hablar todavía de candidatos) o el representante nombrado por la oligarquía gobernante, pronunciará su discurso para que todos lo oigan.

In all dictatorial propaganda, silence is at least as important as speech.

He wondered if she also knew how strange and sad he found it to hear her talking--as so many others did--about 'usn's',' and acting as if se owned the plantation she lived on instead of the other way around.

when the man would be responsible for everything he speaks in vain. -He's responsible when that, which he speaks in vain, causes a misfortune.

But only if youses shift yoursels and get in." He used the demotic plural of you, a common feature of speech in Scotland.

Isabel smiled. She liked a conversation that went in odd directions; she liked the idea of playfulness in speech. People could be so depressingly literal. Jamie

I know words. I have the best words.

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

His clothing marked him as Italian. The cadence of his speech announced that he was Venetian. His eyes were all policeman.

Silence isn't always golden; sometimes it's just yellow.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

Proverbs 21:23: "Watch your words and hold your tongue; you'll save yourself a lot of grief" (MSG).

the president began dictating what became his famous declaration of hope for "a world founded upon four essential human freedoms" - freedom of speech and expression; freedom of religion; freedom from want; and freedom from fear. These were, he said, not a vision for "a distant millennium" but "a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.

Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words – even provocative or repugnant ones – are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech.

The apostle James tells us that a man who can control his tongue can control the rest of his body as well. This goes double for the man who is putting what the tongue does into a more permanent setting.

Death has no power to change moral qualities," he insisted in a Decoration Day speech in 1883. "Whatever else I may forget," the aging abolitionist declared, "I shall never forget the difference between those who fought for liberty and those who fought for slavery.

In the Arab world, censorship follows speech. In America, censorship precedes speech.

If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

The tongue has the power of life and death.

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.