Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
“Whatever the culture, there’s a tongue in our head. Some use it, some hold it, some bite it. For the French it… — Richard D. Lewis Copy Share Image
But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The two reasons that Bernie Sanders gave her fits was the Iraq War and her association with Wall Street. Wall Street owns… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth.… — Harold Ickes Copy Share Image
Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
“The most hilarious thing about people holding up their right to free speech is how much it weakens everything else they've said.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the… — Konstantin Pobedonostsev 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
I find myself having rehearsal chats, in my head, for conversations I need to have. Sometimes they are arguments, things I need… — Michael Lomenda Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as… — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
It's not speech per se that allows democracies to function, but the ability to agree - eventually, at least some of the… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals,… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I'm the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, the freedom of choice. I'm… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
In most Western democracies, you do have the freedom of speech. But freedom of speech is not an entitlement to reach. You… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words… — William Meredith Copy Share Image
Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech,… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
On the very last day of shooting [of The Last King of Scotlang], I remember wanting to get the [Idi Amin] character… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking… — Linda Armstrong Copy Share Image
One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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