Speech Quotes - page 2

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. (Saskya Pandita)
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. View quote
Emil Cioran
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy. View quote
Emo Philips
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. View quote
Sarojini Naidu
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. (George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax)
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. View quote
Harold Pinter
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. View quote
Brad Thor
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. View quote
Jean Kerr
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. View quote
Kirk Douglas
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose. View quote
George Eliot
Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. (Edward Snowden)
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. View quote
William O. Douglas
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought. View quote
Tiberius
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. View quote
Susan Sontag
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. View quote
Thornton Wilder
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