Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“The value of free speech lies not just in the protection of popular opinions but in the shelter it provides for dissenting… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's,… — Moncure Daniel Conway Copy Share Image
The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who,… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
“I am knowing to him who lacks knowledge, One who teaches a man what is useful to him. I am a straight… — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“A place has a curious quality when you have only a partial understanding of its language, and in those early months the… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Jock Semple and I began appearing at speeches together and he came up to me on the start line in 1973 and… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm… — Jason Wiles Copy Share Image
If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have… — Heloise Copy Share Image
I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image