There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
In several speeches and interviews, Donald Trump has brought up his book 'The Art of the Deal,' and said that Obama would… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs,… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my… — Henry Bromell Copy Share Image
The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I give speeches at megachurches across America, and the one thing that's really striking about it is how utterly, completely diverse they… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Change does not come on thoughts alone; because we have a revolutionary ideology and give speeches on it. It comes because you… — Chokwe Lumumba Copy Share Image
There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times.… — Frances Farenthold Copy Share Image
Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“...revealing intimate truths that serve as a forceful reminder to folks that when they feel broken and afraid and tired, they are… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it,… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image