Top 1200 Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.
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.
[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.
Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.
One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.
As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.
I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.
I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.
Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.
I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.
I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.
The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you.
I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.
There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.
