'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Speech is a rolling machine that always stretches the feelings it expresses.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint. — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime. — Charlene Weir Copy Share Image
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As human voice and instrument blend in one harmony, as human soul and body blend in each act of feeling, thought, or… — Archibald Alexander Hodge Copy Share Image
During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We should protect free speech by repealing offences that stifle legitimate debate - like 'glorification' of terrorism and religious hatred - but… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go… — John Carlos Copy Share Image