Speak Quotes
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.
Each man should speak his mind, even if everything were to be turned upside down. This point, however, is open to dispute.
I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
If we approach nature and the environment without this openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, unable to set limits on their immediate needs. By contrast, if we feel intimately united with all that exists, then sobriety and care will well up spontaneously.
The cross does not speak to us about defeat and failure; paradoxically, it speaks to us about a death which is life.
But the First Amendment gives all of us - it gives it to me, it gives it to you, it gives all Americans - the right to speak our minds freely. It gives you the right and me the right to criticize fake news, and criticize it strongly.
You can be very, very competent... but if you're not willing to speak out... have the confidence based on your knowledge... what's the point?
Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
The phrase 'military necessity' is sometimes used where it would be more truthful to speak of military convenience or even personal convenience. I do not want it to cloak slackness or indifference.
If we are going to continue to be proud that we are Americans, there must be no weakening of the code by which we have lived; by the right to meet your accuser face to face, if you have one; by your right to go to the church or the synagogue or even the mosque of your own choosing; by your right to speak your mind and be protected in it.
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new... That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
The media wanted me to speak since morning. But I wanted to speak to Vadodara first. Vadodara has first right on me.
King of the animals - as thou hast described him - I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest - because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth .
This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.
There can be no constitutional democracy in any community which denies to the individual his freedom to speak and worship as he wishes.
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