Top 1200 Power Of Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

Free speech is life itself.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

I have the right to speech and expression and I won't leave that.

Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

I'm a great believer in freedom of speech.

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Free speech is very important.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

Let your speech be true and sweet.

I thought 'The King's Speech' was great.

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

None but the dead have free speech.

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.

His speech is a burning fire.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

I definitely support free speech.

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

True silence is the speech of lovers.

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

Don't give a speech. Put on a show.

Silence is safer than speech.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.