Anything Quote by Florence King

But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not,…

— Dennis Lehane

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm…

— John Lennon

Our society is being run by insane people for insane objectives. i think we are being run by maniacs with maniacal ends and i…

— John Lennon

If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving…

— William Lloyd Garrison

We must not fall into the trap of thinking speech that offends is speech that must be forbidden. A healthy culture demands that much…

— Ben Domenech

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

— George Orwell

We tend to dismiss things we don't particularly like, or that we find disturbing, as aberrations.

— Maria Konnikova

We cannot turn away because a topic is unpleasant or vile. Why? Because one way to rid our society of evil is to confront…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

— Oliver Goldsmith

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

— Theodore Roosevelt

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr