The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Congress
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth.
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the freedom of the press goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind.
Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.
You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it
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