“There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.” ReasonDoneWholeOpinionDevelopmentSpeechFairsHarmOppressionDiscussionHeresyThoroughHereticFree Thought Book:On Liberty Source: On Liberty
“To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.” MenWholePrayerPrayingSpeechCreatorNeedlesStitches Author:Louise Erdrich
“The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.” ArtWholeEasyPleasureImpossibleStyleGeniusSpeechCompositionDisguiseUtilityRecogniseIngeniousPlagiarismOrators Author:Isaac D'Israeli
“Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.” BelieveWholeSpeechPassagesLiftingXerox Author:Hillary Clinton
“Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.” WholeDesireMysterySeaSpeechLipsBeachShellsEchoesSigh Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!” IfsMenWorldShouldWholeWould BeTruthSpeakSpeechAgreeInvisibleWhole WorldSpiders Book:.) (1850). Source: .) (1850).
“We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech. We don't know him as a man. Most people don't even know the whole speech, just "I have a dream." They don't know what his speaking voice was like, how he looked at his wife, or that he had four kids.” PeopleKnowsMenWholeDreamKidsVoiceFourWifeKingsSpeechHolidayStatuesLuther Author:Ava DuVernay