833 Quotes About Speech

If you want them to talk with you “on equal terms” you need to A. Learn to speak and B. Become equal.

If you advocate for the censorship of speech that does not expressly incite violence, limit your own vocabulary to a set number of words for one week. Cease to use several common words or phrases you often use and watch as your ability to communicate and think diminish. Now do you still want censorship knowing it is not just the limiting of speech but thought? If you do, you may wish to look inward about why oppressive impulses come so easily when you disagree with others.

Words hide the truth which action reveals.

Words don't define works.

I love silence but prefer speech: its warmth, energy, humanity.

Poetry is speech, cast in written language, that demands a response; it’s part of a conversation.

People promoting, offering new energy drinks on the streets steal my energy with their speech.

Somehow the words in her head have freed themselves from the architecture of teeth and tongue pallet

A generation accustomed to relate much of its thought to spoken English may question whether even our words need remodelling as well as our spelling, if they are to be adequate for new purposes and ideas.