The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
I was a diction, speech and method acting professor before I became an actor. — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion. — Elizabeth Berkley Copy Share Image
Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot. — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act… — Umar Copy Share Image
