Articles Quote by Kenneth Clark

I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.

— Al Gore

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

— Nawal El Saadawi

Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to…

— Janet Malcolm

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

— Roxane Gay

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.

— Samuel Johnson

In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the…

— Ludwig von Mises

“we have to look beyond the temporal, discounting what someone will write in this moment’s tweet or tomorrow’s news. Reasoned judgment and inner conviction…

— Satya Nadella

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

— Ruth Gordon

Speech is civilization itself.

— Thomas Mann

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

— Mick Jagger

For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory,…

— Stuart Chase

All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future.

— Patrick Dixon