Speech Quotes
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
Gautama Buddha
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I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
Stockwell Day
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We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.
Judith Butler
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The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.
Denise Caruso
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The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech.
Robert Zubrin
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I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.
Raul Castro
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
William Jennings Bryan
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
Moliere
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
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A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
Max Lerner
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
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He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
Herodotus
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The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.
Thomas Aquinas
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
Abraham Lincoln
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A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
William Shakespeare
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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
William Butler Yeats
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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
Edwin Newman
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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
Francis Bacon
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We live in a democratic country, and in a democracy freedom of speech is for the people and also for the leaders.
Ayelet Shaked
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This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
Gautama Buddha
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When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.
Haylie Duff
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Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
George III
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c is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.
Paul Mooney