Speech Quotes

In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

I don't support hate speech. I don't want to support a racist football team or bands that are offensive.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.

Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.

Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

Speech should be fruitful as well as free.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!

Self-consciousness kills communication.

Darkness promotes speech.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

Speech is the index of the mind.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.

I love free speech.

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Democrats haven't been this upset about an American engaging in free speech since Juanita Broaddrick opened her yap.

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

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

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.

I hate to do anything that is going to stop or suppress free speech.

It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?