Speech Quotes

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

Oscar Wilde
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Sophocles
- Mind
- Speech
- Empty

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

Barnett Newman
Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

Barack Obama
- Long
- Live
- Together
When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning."

Confucius
- Stuff
- Loves
- Corrects
I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

Bill Peterson
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

Ethan Zuckerman
Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

F. David Mathews