833 Quotes About Speech

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”- Xenocrates Indeed, I always have pleasure from my silence; however, others consistently regretted that as the lack of courage to face the critique. I cannot decide what it executes; idiocy or wisdom; whereas, speech is its evaluation and measurement.- Ehsan Sehgal

We prefer truth over facts.

If you seek to ever redefine the meaning of words to your benefit you are trying redefine speech and thus limit opposing thought, those who do so are censors and tyrants who should be opposed at every turn.

Small talk is real talk. All the rest is hyperbole.

But Beckett, for all his posturing, talked in scribbles. He gave lines of information with gaping spaces in between.

He spoke slowly, as if searching for adjectives in the darkness.

The pen had been mightier than the sword but then the the tongue took over.

Everything—that’s far too much. It was specific things that fell apart, not everything; identifiable beliefs failed; particular actions were false and inauthentic.

You, the common people, have the right to free speech and we, the corrupt corporate government, have the right to ignore you. We choose to ignore you.