Speech Quotes - Page 25

• I think actually that the speech work I do is fine. It's important, because I try to help people think about what's going on and organize their lives accordingly.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Q&A: How Bill Clinton is Changing the World". Interview with Patricia Storace, www.cntraveler.com. August 15, 2007.

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• Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the restless, noisy spirit of the day, and encourage to speech the soft voices within you that timidly whisper of the peace of the quiet night; and occasionally look out at the quiet stars. The night will soothe you like a tender mother, folding you against her soft bosom, and hiding you from the harm of the world.

  Max Ehrmann

  Mother, Peace, Stars

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• The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Restoration, Association, Whole

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.106, Hackett Publishing

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• Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bravery, Useless, Action

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Association, Should, Aggressive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.149, Penguin Books India

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• Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Order, Farce

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Religious, Writing, Men

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.113, TAN Books

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• I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

  Jim Jefferies

  Fun, Rip, Thinking

  Source: manofmany.com

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• I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and all that type of bullshit, going up there and doing a flat 20 [minutes]. I reckon I'd have better stagecraft and presence than Jesus. Yea, I'm a better stand-up comedian than Jesus, so I reckon I could go on after him.

  Jim Jefferies

  Jesus, Blessed, Bullshit

  Source: manofmany.com

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• There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to meet with the sales force, and you've got to have all these luncheons, and be gracious, and you've got to give a lot of presentations and you've got to give a lot of speeches, and you've got to be on tour.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Giving, Force

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

  Paul Mooney

  Talking, Racism, Insanity

  Source: theaustintimes.com

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• I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Freedom Of Speech, Free Speech, Stills

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

  Homer

  Eye, Silence, Persuasive

  Homer, Alexander Pope (1809). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.1072

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• Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Leader, Political, Convincing

  WGBH-TV Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.

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• Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Powerful, Rights, Turkeys

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• You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

  Sam Altman

  Winning, Vision, Momentum

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.

  Talal Asad

  Hate, Character, Law

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• The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion or "abridging the freedom of speech." The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the government's authority.

  Clarence Thomas

  Exercise, Government, Freedom Of Speech

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• Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.

  Garry Trudeau

  Absolutism, World, Social

  Garry Trudeau's George Polk Awards Speech, www.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2015.

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• What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

  Flemming Rose

  Hate, Men, Another Man

  Source: theundercurrent.org

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• I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Corruption, Bigs

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• You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

  Lena Dunham

  Giving, Exciting

  "EMMYS: Lena Dunham On 'Girls'". Interview with Charlie Mason, deadline.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

  Nicholson Baker

  Lying, Writing, Decision

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Don't give a speech. Put on a show.

  Paul Arden

  Inspirational, Giving, Shows

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