Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I don't speak Not a word at will But write so much worth well over a mill' Well… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Mine’ and ‘yours’, is interaction of the worldly life. If you like the interaction where the other person is being verbally abusive,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
“Speech is a phase (avastha) of the non-Self complex (pudgal); it is not its intrinsic property that has a specific function (gunadharma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
My feeling is that the Supreme Court reached a reasonable standard of protection of speech in the 1960s, a standard higher than… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“...if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Speech itself, inevitable and unrelenting is the wind. It can dance like a zephyr. It can roar or shriek or wail. But… — Brooke Gladstone Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Donald Trump announced that he's running for president. During his speech he told the crowd that if elected he would be 'the… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect:… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Donald Trump foreign policy speech got good reviews, and it says we're going to defeat the people who are direct threats to… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
The First Amendment gives all of us - it gives it to me, it gives it to you, it gives all Americans… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I have a running daydream about winning an Oscar and giving my speech about how ridiculous it is to rank art. And… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long… — William Whipple Copy Share Image
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
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