Speech Quotes - Page 34

• When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

  Paul Goodman

  Serious, Censorship, Loud

  Growing Up Absurd ch. 2 (1960)

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• The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

  Voltaire

  Important, Free Speech

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• Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

  Voltaire

  Men, Use, Injustice

  "Le Chapon et la Poularde (1763)". Dialogue by Voltaire, Dialogue XIV, 1766.

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• For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a crafter of everything from political speeches to modern novels. One could use it personally, as a tool of discovery or a means of staying connected to others. One could use it as an outlet that would feed the artistic spirit of the creator, which existed in everyone.

  Elizabeth George

  Mean, Modern Novel, Skills

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• The poetry of speech.

  Lord Byron

  Poetry

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.97, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.

  William Ellery Channing

  Country, Peace, War

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• I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.

  John Abbott

  Hate, Notoriety, Caucus

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• The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

  Paul Goodman

  Travel, Space, Land

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

  Daniel Webster

  Happiness, Morning, Men

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 24 Mar. 1831

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• In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

  Pliny the Younger

  Pleading, Cases, Brevity

  "Epistles" by Pliny the Younger, Book I. 20,

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• We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.

  David Brinkley

  Years, Political, Democracy

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• I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other people's clothes and pretending to be somebody else, which is completely crazy choice of profession. So, I don't enjoy public speaking and I have every sympathy for anyone who has to do it and doesn't enjoy it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Crazy, Clothes, People

  "The King's Speech - Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.

  Virginia Madsen

  Jobs, Years, Hollywood

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from May 03, 2017

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• I've done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it's very hard to follow all these stories. You end up not caring about any of the people and I thought that would be the case in this film, and you had these big speeches for each character, you know, it's like "God that's how you'll have to cut that down in order to paste it all", to edit the movie and my representatives could say "no, you really you ought to check it out.

  Jeff Bridges

  Character, Caring, Cutting

  "Jeff Bridges Is Making a Porno in The Amateurs". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. December 6, 2007.

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• I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

  James Frey

  Writing, Voice, Trying

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream. You listen to a poem as you might listen to someone you love who tells you their truest day. Their words might weep, joke, whirl, leap. What's unspoken in the words will still be heard. It's also the way we listen to music: You don't look for extractable meaning, but to be moved.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Dream, Self, Understanding

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.

  Cate Blanchett

  Battle, Trying, Events

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Evil, Doe

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• Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Different, Care

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 21, 2015.

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• In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Acting, Together

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.276, CUP Archive

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• The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.

  Eric Corley

  War, Practice, Ideas

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• Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Believe, Gun, Men

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• Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

  Nathaniel Altman

  War, Fighting, Animal

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• My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

  Ameen Rihani

  Heart, Simple, Mind

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• Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Responsibility, Views

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