The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by… — Marlene Caroselli Copy Share Image
Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not… — Michael Anti 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
I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering.… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Liberals don't want any part of Canada left behind. I used to give speeches on and on and on about the fact… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“He very soon acquired the reputation of being the best public speaker of his time. He had taken pains to master the… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“When facing society, the man most concerned, the man who is to do the most and contribute the most, has the least… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This is precisely the purpose of censorship - not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
[Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] has done this not through angry speeches, but through the powerful symbols and examples of embracing a badly deformed man,… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
“For many reasons, Dear,” Delia said in a soothing voice. “We are tired of running , tired of traveling. It is time… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
We are resolved to protect individual freedom of belief. This freedom must include the child as well as the parent. The freedom… — Sophia Lyon Fahs Copy Share Image
The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image