Best 1175 quotes in «speech quotes» category

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.

There is no freedom of speech if you're a conservative.

There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed that we rescind the First Amendment on free speech because there is too much litigation over it? Has anyone suggested the same for the Fourteenth Amendment I don't suppose there has ever been a constitutional amendment with so much litigation?

There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the less he spoke Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree? Speech must die to serve that which is spoken.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.

The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us in "free-speech zones"; they say you can only do it at this time, and in this way, and you can't interrupt the functioning of the government. They limit the impact that civil disobedience can achieve. We have to remember that civil disobedience must be disobedience if it's to be effective.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

The ultimate hate speech is to endorse homosexuality.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

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

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

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

The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out.

Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.