Buddhism Quote by Sylvia Boorstein

“Giving up wrong deeds, exercise right action. Giving up wrong speech, exercise right speech. Giving up wrong thoughts, think good thoughts.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Three parts of the Noble Eightfold Path fall within the training of sīla: right speech, right action, and right livelihood.”

— William Hart

“It was right for his speech to be a failure, since what he had been defending was a lie.”

— Jean Hegland

I have the right to speech and expression and I won't leave that.

— Payal Rohatgi

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a…

— Martha Graham

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

“First-order consequences of Prohibition: alcohol is made illegal, legitimate producers of alcohol go out of business, decrease in drinking.   Second-order consequences of Prohibition:…

— Sebastian Marshall

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient…

— Italo Calvino

“Canned breakfast juices had first appeared during Prohibition, motivated by grape growers who could no longer sell their products as wine, and by orange…

— Gary Taubes

All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em…

— Kin Hubbard

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

— Bill Hicks

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms…

— Pierre Trudeau

“And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe’s Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol content.”

— Donald O'Donovan

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not…

— Sam Branson