Speech Quotes - Page 35

• Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

  Barney Frank

  People, Tough, Cases

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• On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

  David Hockney

  Doctors, Talking, Years

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.

  Josh Fox

  Powerful, Focus, Bully

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

  Maria Conchita Alonso

  Country, Mirrors, Rights

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

  Camille Paglia

  Speaks Out, Abuse, Twenties

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.18, Vintage

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• A tranquil mind, a truth-filled speech, and a body dedicated to service-one who has these three qualities is described as the embodiment of 'Triputi' (the Triple purity). Such a one is the noblest of human beings.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mind, Quality, Three

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• If you go to the Lincoln Memorial, the Second Inaugural is probably the most religious speech ever given by an American President. In its 732 words, it references God 14 times and has two verses of the Bible.

  Newt Gingrich

  Religious, Two, Memorial

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• Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, People, Freedom Of Speech

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• Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

  Karl Kraus

  Mother, Handmaids

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• Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

  Kevin Drum

  Giving, Answers, Annoying

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• To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.

  Volker Ullrich

  Taverns, Facts, Speakers

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• Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

  Ted Alexandro

  Clubs, Lasts, Comedy

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."

  Roger Ballen

  Thinking, Names, People

  "Roger Ballen and The Making of The Room". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2013.

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• I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the design of how you talk to another human being; it's the design of speech; it's the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Essence, Design, Understanding

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• There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Average, Offending, Campaigns

  Sergio De La Pava (2012). “A Naked Singularity: A Novel”, p.311, University of Chicago Press

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• Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

  Molly Corbett Broad

  Academic, Institutions, Duty

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• Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Religious, Art, Law

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• For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves.

  Stuart Chase

  Philosophy, Political, Dinner

  Stuart Chase (2015). “Tyranny of Words”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

  Emily Dickinson

  Communication, Perfect, Silence

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• There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Dwelling, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

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• A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

  Aristotle

  Taken, May, Ends

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Rhetoric”, p.12, Aeterna Press

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• New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Way, Tongue

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.125, Penguin

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• Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom Of Speech, Abuse, Commit

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• Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign.

  Sarah Palin

  War, Fighting, Talking

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Simple is the speech of truth.

  Aeschylus

  Simple

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