speech quotes

• Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact / it is silence which isolates. (Thomas Mann) [speech/silence]
• When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions. (Hannah Arendt) [wealth/happiness/speech]
• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. (Hannah Arendt) [speech/speech/being]
• Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. (Francis Bacon) [speech/more/eloquence/speak]
• Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. (Francis Bacon) [speech]
• Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. (Roland Barthes) [language/speech/power/speech]
• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. (Ingrid Bergman) [kiss/nature/speech/words]
• The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) [solitude/silence/speech/silence]
• In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched. (Thomas Carlyle) [silence/speech/more]
• Song is the heroics of speech. (Thomas Carlyle) [speech]
• Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. (Thomas Carlyle) [music/speech]
• Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. (Thomas Carlyle) [speech/human/silence]
• Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. (Thomas Carlyle) [silence/speech/time]
• Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. (Thomas Carlyle) [speech/silence/silence/speech]
• Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. (Thomas Carlyle) [speech/time/silence]
• Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. (Thomas Carlyle) [action/speech/thoughts/speech]
• Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. (Marcus Cicero) [brevity/speech]
• Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder. (Leonard Cohen) [life/speech/animals/eyes]
• The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. ( Confucius) [speech]
• Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. (Max Eastman) [laughter/speech/thing/society]
• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. (George Eliot) [silence/literature/speech/take]
• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion. (George Eliot) [speech/silence/willpower]
• I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [english/speech]
• Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [speech/power/speech]
• The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [speech/promises/employment/evil]
• People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [people/more/speech/nature]
• Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things. (William James) [youth/society/speech/matter]
• Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge. (John Locke) [speech/abuse/language/science]
• Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates. (Thomas Mann) [speech/silence]
• It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree. (Leo McKern) [speech]
• Speech is the small change of silence. (George Meredith) [speech/change/silence]

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