Bad Speech Quotes

#1. Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

Jackson Katz

#2. The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.

David Ignatius

#3. The best answer to bad speech is good speech

Alan Dershowitz

#4. When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

Susan Estrich

#5. Avoid people who are always having a bad day. In their minds, nothing ever works in their favor. They have a chronic "Woe Is Me" campaign that they continue to launch full blast. This kind of negativity depletes enthusiasm. You don't need the woe-is-me speech every day.

Steve Harvey

#6. Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,
Malnourished poems that professors love;
The bad grammar and dirty words that catch
In the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.
Pablo, your words are rain I run through,
Grass I sleep in.

George Elliott Clarke

#8. Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

Dick Clark

#9. You have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!

Gail Carriger

#10. There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.

Sunny Leone

#11. Any good thing will be ruined by talking negatively about it; similarly bad thing will improve by speaking positive about it.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

Kirk Douglas

#13. My high school experience was kind of like 'Mean Girls.' It was very much like a bad B movie. 'This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.' And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate.

Andie MacDowell

#14. Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn't say anything bad about it.

James Rozoff

#15. So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Floyd Abrams

#16. If a man keeps on talking negatively and we scold him, what is that tantamount to? It is like kicking the door of a latrine because it smells bad; will kicking it make it smell good?

Dada Bhagwan

#17. To prosper, a zoo needs parliamentary government, democratic elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, rule of law and everything else enshrined in India's Constitution. Impossible to enjoy the animals otherwise. Long-term, bad politics is bad for business.

Yann Martel

#18. The good guys fight for freedom, justice and most words that don't put food on the table. The bad fight to scrub those words from our speech. Only problem is, both sides claim to be good.

David Gunn

#19. Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

Kevin Drum

#20. The paramanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech and body are effective. That is why things appear as good or bad. It shows good as being bad and bad as being good. And because of that, opinions are formed. The parmanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech-body themselves express opinions.

Dada Bhagwan

#21. Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.

Dave Barry

#23. In classes, the more lively and uninhibited ones will "suck away the air" from those with a more passive nature, despite all the efforts of the teacher. It is also a special danger in large groups that you will hear your fellow students' bad pronunciation more than the teacher's perfected speech.

Kato Lomb