Speech Quotes

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

Remember that thought is speech before God.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

The attitude of the Pakistani people is very good. Whenever I release any statement or deliver any kind of speech, they respond favourably.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches.

Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something that white people do. I think governments, this is a white thing.

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.