“He gave man speech, and speech created thought,
Which is the measure of the universe.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound
Asia, Act II, sc. iv, l. 72
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.”
Canto II, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
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Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891) British freethinker, and radical politician
Speech at Hall of Science c.1880 quoted in An Autobiography of Annie Besant; reported in Edmund Fuller, Thesaurus of Quotations (1941), p. 398; reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
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Anthony Kennedy (1936) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002) (Opinion of the Court).
“A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
My Lost Youth, refrain (1858), quoting Olaus Sirma
Source: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.”
In civitate libera linguam mentemque liberas esse debere (jactabat).
Tiberius (-42–37 BC) 2nd Emperor of Ancient Rome, member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
Variant translation: In a free state, both the tongue and the mind ought to be free.
From Suetonius, The Twelves Caesars, ch. 28
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
"No Religion is an Island", p. 264
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: One of the results of the rapid depersonalization of our age is a crisis of speech, profanation of language. We have trifled with the name of God, we have taken the name and the word of the Holy in vain. Language has been reduced to labels, talk has become double-talk. We are in the process of losing faith in the reality of words.
Yet prayer can happen only when words reverberate with power and inner life, when uttered as an earnest, as a promise. On the other hand, there is a high degree of obsolescence in the traditional language of the theology of prayer. Renewal of prayer calls for a renewal of language, of cleansing the words, of revival of meanings.
The strength of faith is in silence, and in words that hibernate and wait. Uttered faith must come out as a surplus of silence, as the fruit of lived faith, of enduring intimacy.
Theological education must deepen privacy, strive for daily renewal of innerness, cultivate ingredients of religious existence, reverence and responsibility.
Anthony Kennedy (1936) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
United States v. Alvarez, 567 U. S. ____, *16 (2012).
Mark Steyn (1959) Canadian writer
"Stay Quiet and You'll Be Okay" http://www.steynonline.com/6943/stay-quiet-and-youll-be-okay steynonline.com (9 May 2015)
“Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787–1859) Polish rabbi
As quoted in T'he Season of the Witch : Le Couer Dechire (2008) by Etienne De Mendes http://www.etiennedemendes.com, p. 545 <br class="br">Context: Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et n'emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées.
Dialogue xiv, Le Chapon et la Poularde (l763); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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