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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; - that laws were like cobwebs, -for that if ...
DIOGENES The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
CONFUCIUS The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
CONFUCIUS A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
CONFUCIUS Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, ope...
GASTON BACHELARD In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Everybody stayed focused all game long, and everybody played well tonight. This is a great win for S...
MATT LESAN Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
HERMANN HESSE متهمون نحن بالإرهاب
أذا كتبنا عن بقايا وطن ...
مخلع...
نزار قباني There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and pr...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. Abdul Basit and the Hurriyat did not thank their freedom of speech in India when they could spend th...
APURVA GAGLANI yeah i've got something to say, and i'll be damned if nobody listens.
SARAH SHUTE THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE WHILE LIES SHALL PUT YOU IN JAIL
NELSON M. LUBAO [Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest]
In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the...
PLATO The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS There is always a journey to take and there is always a final destination to reach. There is always ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at ...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption.
WALTER BENJAMIN There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
JACQUES PARIZEAU The other issue it raises is the kind of speech we'll hear. The strongest speech people see when the...
JONATHAN ZITTRAIN It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects...
GEORGE ORWELL Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your ey...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Onl...
R. H. COASE Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is m...
JACKSON KATZ The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.
GEORGE T. DELACORTE Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Learn to obey before you command.
SOLON Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
SOLON I grow old learning something new every day.
SOLON Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOLON Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
SOLON No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
SOLON Speech is the mirror of action.
SOLON Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
SOLON Look to the end of a long life.
SOLON In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
SOLON No fool can be silent at a feast.
SOLON Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
SOLON Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
SOLON Forget candle, she lives the afterlife like a barn door in the wind.
SOLON Men and women do have different perspectives on comedy and I think we have different approaches to w...
SOLON Boeing has really regained momentum, ... starting to do well.
SOLON Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them
SOLON A very fair spot but there is no way down from it
SOLON No fool can be silent at a feast
SOLON No man is happy. He is, at best, fortunate.
SOLON Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law
SOLON Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large thin...
SOLON Call no man happy until he is dead.
SOLON Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
SOLON I grow old learning something new everyday.
SOLON Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath
SOLON The New Dimension is peaceful, and all work here just as they do on Earth. It’s a place where lear...
SOLON Boeing has really regained momentum, ... are starting to do well.
SOLON count no man happy until he be dead.
SOLON Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like...
NEIL GAIMAN Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.

[ JIM C. HINES My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, an...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Nobody can bind the thoughts by imposing the rules and regulations, terms and conditions.
YASMEEN KHAN ‎"Freedom is fundamentally the possibility of standig on a street corner and shouting “There is ...
YOANI SáNCHEZ The best answer to bad speech is good speech
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the sam...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER (Solon) being asked, namely, what city was best to live in, "That city," he replied, "in which those...
PLUTARCH Song is the heroics of speech.
THOMAS CARLYLE Literature is the immortality of speech.
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Thought is the fountain of speech.
CHRYSIPPUS Literature is the immortality of speech
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL Slurring is the cursive of speech...
AMOR TOWLES We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA ['The size of the sea' But others say the debate is important because it can determine whether actio...
JUAN COLE The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to pro...
CHELSEA MANNING Speech is the voice of the heart.
ANNA QUINDLEN Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe...
MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The future is the result of actions, and actions are the result of behavior, and behavior is the res...
DAVID MCRANEY It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatene...
GLENN GREENWALD The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The American courts ruled that money is speech and speech can't be limited in politics because of fr...
LISA YOUNG Speech is the small change of silence.
GEORGE MEREDITH We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
PATRICK CHAPPATTE In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyo...
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Style is the image of character.
EDWARD GIBBON Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
SOPHOCLES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
ANTOINE RIVAROL Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection...
NEAL BOORTZ Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is ...
HANNAH ARENDT The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we o...
MICHAEL BADNARIK The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no acti...
AMIT KALANTRI The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER The symbol of Moses and the burning bush is such a powerful image in Jewish philosophy. It is a beau...
JAY LEWIS Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
CAMERON RUSSELL If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech cri...
ANN COULTER Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
THOMAS CARLYLE Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
BEN CARSON

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Learn to obey before you command.
SOLON Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
SOLON I grow old learning something new every day.
SOLON Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOLON Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
SOLON No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
SOLON Speech is the mirror of action.
SOLON Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
SOLON Look to the end of a long life.
SOLON In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
SOLON No fool can be silent at a feast.
SOLON Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
SOLON Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
SOLON Forget candle, she lives the afterlife like a barn door in the wind.
SOLON Men and women do have different perspectives on comedy and I think we have different approaches to w...
SOLON Boeing has really regained momentum, ... starting to do well.
SOLON Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them
SOLON A very fair spot but there is no way down from it
SOLON No fool can be silent at a feast
SOLON No man is happy. He is, at best, fortunate.
SOLON Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law
SOLON Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large thin...
SOLON Call no man happy until he is dead.
SOLON Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
SOLON I grow old learning something new everyday.
SOLON Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath
SOLON The New Dimension is peaceful, and all work here just as they do on Earth. It’s a place where lear...
SOLON Boeing has really regained momentum, ... are starting to do well.
SOLON count no man happy until he be dead.
SOLON Berlin is an anomaly. It's the capital of the most populous country in the EU but it has few flights...
DAN SOLON May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rou...
GERALDINE SOLON You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.
GERALDINE SOLON A platform is what defines your visibility with your audience.
GERALDINE SOLON The sterling-dollar equation moved against him.
DAN SOLON It was ridiculous even to be nominated with these people.
LAURA SOLON I think some offers have been made, but I really don't know about them. I will have to sit down with...
LAURA SOLON