“We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway.” IfsLongStillsFormValuesLanguageDealsStudySpecialStudentsCollegeCommunicationSpeechDirectCommunicateToneReplacedLecturesApes Book:Leacock on Life Source: Leacock on Life
“Balanced' is a code for 'denied': a right to free speech that must be 'balanced' against so exhaustive a list of other supposed values means a right that can be exercised only when those in power judge that the speech in question is innocuous to them.” MeanValuesFreedomPowerJudgingSpeechListsCodeDeniedCensorshipBalancedFree Speech Author:Ronald Dworkin
“Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual concerned. Each of us should have the right to speak his thoughts and to hear the thoughts of others.” ShouldIdeasValuesIndividualSpeakSpeechGainsConcernedDirectShould HaveCollectivesCensorshipInterchangePersonal Values Author:Charles Rembar
“Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.” ValuesSilenceSpeech Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater