#speech

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong. ↗

— Judy Blume

#censoring #censors #censorship #censure #first-amendment

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#free-inquiry #free-speech #irony #intelligence

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#lose #prepare #speech #thought #would

Bury My Heart is "a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders. ↗

— Stan Slap

#branding #branding-culture #keynote-speaker #keynote-speech #leadership-quotes

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#common #common sense #freedom #liberties #normal

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. ↗

— William Shatner

#devastated #expectation #gives #hurt #speech

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#her #lacks #power #she #speech

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conversation #had #lost #power #she

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#bondage #chains #free #free speech #had

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#always #crucial #every #i #i think