#speech

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. ↗

— Buddha

#grain #ones #sieve #speech #their

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#ad #advertising #easier #far #good

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#angels #said #speech #well

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arts #both #brutish #dead #divine

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#being #definition #makes #man #matters

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

#classification #code #forget #language #legislation

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech. ↗

— Loretta Swit

#free #free speech #i #privilege #should

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention? ↗

— Bo Bennett

#audience #great #great way #involved #keep

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree. ↗

— Benjamin Carson

#being #concentrate #disagree #forget #need

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how