833 Quotes About Speech

how well you understood that it would be easier to me to write to you than to speak!

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

Nations arise telling a story that binds people together in sacrifice and cooperation, allowing for remarkable feats. But those same stories have so often been used to oppress and dehumanize those who are different. The wars of the modern age teach us this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution as well.

Speech is the beginning of love, touch its consummation.

Usually they defined "listening" as a period in which you worked out what you were going to say next.

It takes courage to say things differently: Caution and cowardice dictate the use of the cliché.

It is hard to travel in this fallen world if you lose the power of speech every time evil meets you on the path.

While in the case of his iron money, as I have explained, Lycurgus arranged for heavy weight to be matched by low value, he did the opposite for the currency of speech. Here he developed the technique of expressing a wide range of ideas in just a few, spare words.

Remember, everything you need to say should be up front. All that you want to say can come later.