“A vow of silence (maun) taken for a worldly purpose is considered non-silence (amaun). Anything that is spoken for the purpose of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The internet gave us all the power of speech, and what did we discover? That victory goes to he who shouts the… — Claire North Copy Share Image
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well,… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To all the self-righteous defenders of 'freedom of speech' who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT's journalistic… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I'm just going to go to schools and give inspirational speeches about our bodies. I'll just wear flowing dresses and talk way… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I am not a man of words, not yesterday, not the day before, not from the first time You spoke to your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I'll defend child pornography, how about that? What's wrong with seeing some child pornography? What if you watch child pornography because you… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“If every statement is incomplete and every expression is situated upon a silent tacit comprehension, then it must be that things are… — Merleau-Ponty Maurice Copy Share Image
Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Sarah Silverman. She's the reason I do comedy. Her DNC speech was my favorite thing I ever heard. Sitting down with her… — Nikki Glaser Copy Share Image
You know my beautiful speech has made you see me in a whole new and even more attractive light. You totally think… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk… — Dick Clark Copy Share Image
The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
