#speech

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#how #i #life #lived #narrow

Without freedom of speech there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#freedom-of-speech #freedom

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#before #body #body language #conversation #had

All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most cherished beliefs of others; a free society was not placid but turbulent. The bazaar of conflicting was the place where freedom rang. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#liberty #freedom

Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is as a revealing habit of speech, and the point at which its iteration begin to weary him. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#speech #art

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#expert #giving #heartbeats #i #podium

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. ↗

— Joe Biden

#i #make #matter #outside #political

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#benefit #both #exercise #free #free speech

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#cause #democracy #example #gaining #just

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#alone #assembly #bondage #burnt #cannot