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Quotations about speech

BuddhaWhatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

 - Gautama Buddha

Tags:   good  speech  words  

Blaise PascalThere are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

 - Blaise Pascal

Tags:   audience  speech  writing  

Hannah ArendtWherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

 - Hannah Arendt

Tags:   politics  speech  

AristotleThat man is more of a political animal than bees or any other gregarious animals is evident. Nature, as we often say, makes nothing in vain, and man is the only animal whom she has endowed with the gift of speech.

 - Aristotle

Tags:   nature  politics  speech  

David HumeEloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains.

 - David Hume

Tags:   eloquence  persuasion  speech  

Thomas CarlysleUnder 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 Carlysle

Tags:   eternity  quiet  silence  speech  time  

Samuel JohnsonEvery man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

 - Samuel Johnson

Tags:   rights  speech  truth  

Louis BrandeisThose who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. To courageous, self-reliant men with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

 - Louis Brandeis

Tags:   freedom  silence  speech  

George OrwellIf liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

 - George Orwell

Tags:   liberty  rights  speech  

Philip HamertonIf animals could speak as fabulists have feigned, the dog would be a blunt, blundering, outspoken, honest fellow, but the cat would have the rare talent of never saying a word too much.

 - Philip Hamerton

Tags:   cats  dogs  speech  words