Speech Quotes - Page 12

Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.

Hear much; speak little.

College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.

All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would censor to demonstrate with relative certainty that the speech at issue, if not censored, would lead to irremediable and immediate serious harm.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

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

Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed