Quotes about Speech

Language is powerful. Words matter.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Better remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.

Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. "Life and death is in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21).

Living under the tremendous illusion that personal freedoms and freedom of speech are devoid of moral assumptions and responsibilities, we have bankrupted ourselves, so that honor, truth, and morality have been sacrificed at the altar of autonomy and self-worship.

The sense of this, it seemed to me, might be that from above or below, or from any point of the compass, the creative Word might be heard, which is the great thesis of democracy. Democracy assumes that anybody from any quarter can speak, and speak truth, because his mind is not cut off from the truth. All he has to do is clear out his passions and then speak.

You cannot have a negative mouth and a positive life.