833 Quotes About Speech

إن الوطن باق والأشخاص زائلون.. ومصر العريقة هي الخالدة أبداً.. تنتقل رايتها وأمانتها بين سواعد أبنائها.. وعلينا أن نضمن تحقيق ذلك بعزة ورفعة وكرامة.. جيلاً بعد جيل.. ~ من خطاب الرئيس السابق محمد حسني مبارك يوم الثلاثاء 1 فبراير 2011.

Don't be loud, lift your logic.

This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be efficacious—but because they are naturalised.

I’m well aware that I shouldn’t be telling you these things; rather, I want to tell you these things, but I’m not certain they’re worth publishing. I’m a bit terrified at the idea that one day they’ll be discovered.

Men, we don't deserve respect. Yet. Respect is out there on the floor, just waiting for us to go get it.

Quiet restraint speaks volumes against gossip.

Why are humans so different to all other animals? Like the language we use to frame it, that can seem too obvious to ask – but the answer is rooted in words, and turns out to have been hiding in plain sight.

Sarcasm and passive-aggression, two tenets of Southern speech, are difficult for non-native speakers. Bless their hearts.

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.