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Quotes About Speech

By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.
~ Jill McCorkle
Vivir no exige tanto el trabajo de la conciencia cuanto la capacidad de hablar, primero, y de soportar siempre.
~ Rosario Castellanos
Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering on the string that is sound.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech.
~ Rowan Atkinson
As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself, 'The last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And, sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech.
~ Rowan Atkinson
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
~ Rudyard Kipling
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
~ Rumi
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
~ Rush Limbaugh
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.
~ Rush Limbaugh
In silence our speech patterns are refined because silence fosters a self-awareness that enables us to choose more truly the words that we say.
~ Ruth Haley Barton
Freedom of expression: It's an obstruction of justice when one is not able and allowed to express himself justly, he becomes a prisoner.
~ Ryan Pack
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
My cock doesn't talk politics.
~ S. A. Sachs
A political speech pleases all. Those who agree with it, think it over and those who don't are glad it's over
~ S. S. Biddle
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Hast thou not perfect excellence, ?tis best To keep thy tongue in silence, for ?tis this Which shames a man; as lightness does attest The nut is empty, nor of value is.
~ Saadi Shirazi
Türkçenin kendine mahsus bir manas?zl???... Dünyada hiçbir lisanda bu kabiliyet yoktur... Saatlerce konu?up hiçbir ?ey ifade etmemek kabiliyeti!
~ Sabahattin Ali
I'd only stop talking when... I disappeared, or when I slept, which is the same as disappearing but horizontally.
~ Sabina Berman
To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.
~ Malcolm X
Everything fades so quickly, turns into legend, and soon oblivion covers it. And those are the ones who shone. The rest—"unknown, unasked-for" a minute after death. What is "eternal" fame? Emptiness. Then what should we work for? Only this: proper understanding; unselfish action; truthful speech. A resolve to accept whatever happens as necessary and familiar, flowing like water from that same source and spring.
~ Marcus Aurelius
No lo hagas, si no conviene; no lo digas si no es verdad.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Not to be offended with other men's liberty of speech, and to apply myself unto philosophy.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Not to be offended with other men's liberty of speech, and to apply myself unto philosophy. Him
~ Marcus Aurelius