Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“Whatever is being spoken by me, it is not ‘I’ (the true self) who is speaking it. It is the “original tape… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has gotten rich, and she's made a lot of speeches, and she's get great book deals and so forth. But… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Our bodies, speeches and minds need to be trained so that they will do anything we want. We can cry or laugh… — Ching Hai Copy Share Image
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
We learn that Comrade [President of South Africa Nelson] Mandela has announced in a speech that he hopes for a bright future… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
“Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
And Ralph Nader, God bless him, still out there campaigning. Ralph Nader said today he has set a record for the most… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image