Speech Quotes - Page 11

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.

For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them.