A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American - Philosopher
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.

Vivian Gornick

Excellence Matters. Excellent people. Excellent vision. Excellent marketing. Excellent strategies.

Jeff Henderson

Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People who are self-righteous a lot are apparently doping themselves rhythmically with auto-secreted surges of dopamine, endorphins and enkephalins. Didn't you ever ask yourself why indignation feels so good?

David Brin

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

Denis Diderot

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Horace Mann

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

Glenn Greenwald

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

James A. Garfield

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

Thiruvalluvar

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Clarence Darrow

Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

Jason Calacanis

Pubcon is always one of the first shows I put on my calendar. Content is excellent, social is excellent, networking opportunities are excellent.

Jim Banks

Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.

John C. Maxwell

An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

Paul Valery

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Vittorio De Sica

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Hannah Arendt

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

Bob Geldof

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