Speech Quotes · Page 54

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

— Benito Mussolini

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!”

— Taylor Mali

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

— J. L. Austin

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

— James Harvey Robinson

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

— Sathya Sai Baba

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

— John Hall

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is…

— Thomas Carlyle

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all…

— Northrop Frye

[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt…

— Wilfrid Sellars

In his big victory speech last night, Senator Kerry said that he wanted to defeat George Bush and the 'economy of privilege.'…

— Jay Leno

Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have…

— Laozi

It's unequivocal: everyplace I go, the one line I can use in a speech that I know will get applause is when…

— Seth Moulton

Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap…

— Marcus Eremita

The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able…

— Judith Butler

I remember somebody saying something to me about Frost/Nixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way…

— Vanessa Kirby

I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,…

— Lawrence Lessig

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell…

— Northrop Frye

I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm…

— Jason Wiles

Jock Semple and I began appearing at speeches together and he came up to me on the start line in 1973 and…

— Kathrine Switzer

To the enlightened man... whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his 'body', while the physical body becomes the…

— Anagarika Govinda

The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an…

— Thomas Paine

“Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form…

— Thornton Wilder

“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”

— Amit Kalantri

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

— Julian Assange

“When the mind is not spoilt, the speech is not spoilt, the conduct is not spoilt, that is absolute humility [param vinaya].”

— Dada Bhagwan

Anyone who can't tell the difference between a joke and hate speech is just stupid.

— Jim Norton

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or…

— Dennis Skinner

Imageboards are the most important medium for free speech on the Internet.

— Fredrick Brennan

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

— Edward Norton

If you have ever read my columns, you know how important free speech is to me... and how important it should be…

— Kat Timpf

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

— Ai Weiwei

It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket...

— Smedley Butler

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

— Joe Biden

“I have not the power adequately to describe them without committing a breach of the laws of decent speech.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.

— Evan Esar