Quotes on Speech

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

When asked to give a speech never turn it down. It is a chance to develop you and to give new insight to others

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ. So pray that I may never fall into the trap of impressing people with clever speech, but instead I may learn to speak with humility, desiring only to impress people with Christ himself.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought