Speech Quotes · Page 49

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

— Thomas Carlyle

“[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

— Leo McKern

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

— Benjamin Franklin

“I can't forget that stupid, fucking hologram speech. THAT'S why I did dope.”

— Carrie Fisher

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

— Stephen Fry

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

— Hannah More

Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music…

— Carl Orff

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if…

— Pope Leo XIII

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to…

— Larry Flynt

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the…

— Mark Twain

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song…

— Anonymous

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the…

— John McCain

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing…

— John Major

Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it's pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when…

— Jack Layton

However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we…

— Patricia J. Williams

You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech,…

— Nicholas of Cusa

We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal…

— Gaetano Mosca

Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them.…

— Mathew Staver

The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to…

— Winston Churchill

If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and…

— Bocafloja

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in…

— Annie Dillard

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Speech one may regret, Silence no sorrow begets, Humility be born before honour, Soft answer turns wrath’s corner”

— Munindra Misra

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

— Zell Miller

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

— Nat Hentoff

I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.

— Gabrielle Giffords

“Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence. Speech is the harvest of thought,”

— Grenville Kleiser

San Francisco hosted the first medical marijuana job fair. The keynote speech was titled, 'Jobs and How to Avoid Getting One.'

— Jay Leno

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

— Medea Benjamin

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

— Anonymous

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

— Michel de Montaigne

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

— Chuck D

“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

— Joseph Joubert

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

— Lady Starlight