Speech Control Quotes

Political correctness, to me, is an enemy.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.

Governments and reactionary groups resort to nationalism, victimization, and suppression to keep foreign or offending speech at bay.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.

We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.

Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my make-up be seen?' Are they going to whip me?' No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought?' Where is my freedom of speech?' My life, is it livable?' What's going on in the political prisons?

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world.

Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.