Quotes with speech

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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Robert Menzies Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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  • Thomas Carlyle Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Langston Hughes No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
    Langston Hughes
    American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist (1901 - 1967)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Of that freedom [freedom of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
    Palko v. Connecticut
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Salman Rushdie One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Harold Pinter One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Assata Shakur People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Homer Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • George Orwell Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Justice William O. Douglas Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
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  • Leonard Cohen Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • George Bernard Shaw She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Song is the heroics of speech.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • E. M. Cioran Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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