Speech Quotes - Page 8

There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

We will hear more details on [Donald] Trump`s plans on addressing illegal immigration in the speech tonight, including what Trump plans to do about those 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S.

The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Simple is the speech of truth.

We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in Europe, you know?

Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands.

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.