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silence defense opponents
Charles Caleb Colton When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
silence assertion
Charles Dickens We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
silence stopping looks
Alan Watts To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.
silence building crescendo
Chogyam Trungpa As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence tragedy might
Chogyam Trungpa If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence lasts bed
Edith Wharton He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.
silence may speech
Edith Wharton Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
silence ifs
David Hockney If you like music you like silence actually.
freedom-of-speech liberty free-speech
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
freedom-of-speech speech conscience
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
freedom-of-speech important
Ai Weiwei The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.
freedom-of-speech world modern
Ai Weiwei Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
freedom-of-speech finance individual
Ayn Rand The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.
freedom-of-speech violence should
Alan Dershowitz Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
freedom-of-speech violence excuse
Alan Dershowitz The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
freedom-of-speech speech democratic
Aung San Suu Kyi The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.
freedom-of-speech speech might
Bob Dylan Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp
speech remember omniscience
Charles Spurgeon Remember that thought is speech before God.
speech literature immortality
August Wilhelm von Schlegel Literature is the immortality of speech.
speech literature variables
Carl Clinton Van Doren The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
speech ifs
Camille Paglia If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.
speech opinion courses
Dennis Miller Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
speech surprise trump
Edward Leigh It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all?
speech moments evoke
Barbara Tuchman Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
speech green cold
Bennett Cerf Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
speech remember carnegie
Bill Peterson I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.