Quotes about Expression
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.
— Cicero
I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
— Cicero
Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.
— Margaret Atwood
A word after a word after a word is power.
— Margaret Atwood
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.
— Margaret Fuller
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
— Margaret Fuller
When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.
— Ann Voskamp
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
— Frederick Douglass
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
— Harry S. Truman
Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.
— John Lennon
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
— Euripides
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
— Abbie Hoffman