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#speech

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #speech




No speech can stain what is noble by nature.


Sophocles


#noble #speech #stain

People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!


Israelmore Ayivor


#cloaks #colour #content #crocodile-tears #deception

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.


José Saramago


#forgiveness

It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to spend their life without being offended. Nobody has to read this book. Nobody has to pick it up. Nobody has to open it. And if you open it and read it, you don't have to like it. And if you read it and you dislike it, you don't have to remain silent about it. You can write to me, you can complain about it, you can write to the publisher, you can write to the papers, you can write your own book. You can do all those things, but there your rights stop. No one has the right to stop me writing this book. No one has the right to stop it being published, or sold, or bought, or read.


Philip Pullman


#reading #writing #freedom

Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.


Murong Xuecun


#literature #freedom

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.


Murong Xuecun


#literature #freedom

I know it when I see it Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.


Justice Potter Stewart


#law #obscenity #freedom

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.


Newton Lee


#speech #freedom

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.


John Paul Stevens


#freedom






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