Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I bet we'll see a lot of demagoguery [in Donald Trump speech] about the 10,000 Syrians that [Barack] Obama has allowed to… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important,… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“Indeed, an astoundingly small proportion of arguments ‘for free speech’ and ‘against censorship’ or ‘banning’ are, in fact, about free speech, censorship… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided."Truth: Obama later said, "This was an example where we had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“When I left, Mr. Chairman, I had the constitutional right to freedom of speech. Has that right been stripped from the American… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Never drink more than one cocktail before giving a talk. True, the drinks may relax you, but they may also slur your… — Teresa Bloomingdale Copy Share Image
“I want everyone to get plenty of rest tonight, because tomorrow, we make plans to bury the new council chair. And don't… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts,… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Remember, 'governance' is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis - it touches… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds.… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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