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Unpopular Speech Quotes By Alan Dershowitz

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz

Unpopular Speech Quotes By John Dos Passos

I wonder if any of you have ever noticed that it is sometimes those who find most pleasure and amusement in their fellow man, and have most hope in his goodness, who get the reputation of being his most carping critics. Maybe it is that the satirist is so full of the possibilities of humankind in general, that he tends to draw a dark and garish picture when he tries to depict people as they are at any particular moment. The satirist is usually a pretty unpopular fellow. The only time he attains even fleeting popularity is when his works can be used by some political faction as a stick to beat out the brains of their opponents. Satirical writing is by definition unpopular writing. Its aim is to prod people into thinking. Thinking hurts.
(John Dos Passos, 1957, from the speech he delivered upon accepting the Gold Medal for Eminence in Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters) — John Dos Passos

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Jimmy Carter

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. — Jimmy Carter

Unpopular Speech Quotes By David Attenborough

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist. — David Attenborough

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Louise Erdrich

She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessness in which, unknown and unforced, we grow. — Louise Erdrich

Unpopular Speech Quotes By John McPhee

Speaking of libraries: A big open-stack academic or public library is no small pleasure to work in. You're, say, trying to do a piece on something in Nevada, and you go down to C Floor, deep in the earth, and out to what a miner would call a remote working face. You find 10995.497S just where the card catalog and the online computer thought it would be, but that is only the initial nick. The book you knew about has led you to others you did not know about. To the ceiling the shelves are loaded with books about Nevada. You pull them down, one at a time, and sit on the floor and look them over until you are sitting on a pile five feet high, at which point you are late home for dinner and you get up and walk away. It's an incomparable boon to research, all that; but it is also a reason why there are almost no large open-stack libraries left in the world. — John McPhee

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Buddy Rich

No, I don't like recording. It's a bore. — Buddy Rich

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Wendy Higgins

I saw now that love could not be stopped, forgotten, or transferred, no matter what schemes the mind and body devised. — Wendy Higgins

Unpopular Speech Quotes By John O'Donohue

Patrick Kavanagh put it, preparing for life rather than living it. — John O'Donohue

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Edward Norton

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation. — Edward Norton

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Aaron Sorkin

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace — Aaron Sorkin

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Gertrude Himmelfarb

As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Walter Sorrells

...what if everything that we see, everything that seems real - what if it was not real?...What if the stuff that was real was somehow hidden?... [56] — Walter Sorrells

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Marisha Pessl

Smoke was a person with a sense of history. Do you know what I mean? ... in truth, I DID know what she meant. Da Vinci, Martin Luther King, Jr., Genghis Kahn, Abraham Lincoln, Bette Davis - if you read their definitive biographies, you learned even when they were a month old, cooing in some wobbly crib in the middle of nowhere, they already had something historic about them. The way other kids had baseball, long division, Hot Wheels, and hula hoops, these kids had History and thus tended to be prone to colds, unpopular, sometimes plagued with a physical deformity (Lord Byron's clubfoot, Maugham's severe stutter, for example), which pushed them into exile in their heads. It was there they began to dream of human anatomy, civil rights, conquering Asia, a lost speech and being (within a span of four years) a jezebel, a marked woman, a little fox and an old maid. — Marisha Pessl

Unpopular Speech Quotes By M.B. Julien

I run back to the peephole and see all three of them as they walk past with these things in their hands, I can hear the woman who I assume is their mother telling them a joke. I know the joke, but when I first heard it a long time ago, it didn't make me laugh. When she's done, I can hear the kids laughing. The joke still doesn't make me laugh, what makes me laugh are the laughing kids. That high pitched fast paced laugh that kids have. It's not until we get older that this laugh becomes low and drawn out. Trying to figure out when it's appropriate to laugh and when it's not. — M.B. Julien

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Tony Snow

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none. — Tony Snow

Unpopular Speech Quotes By W.S. Gilbert

A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause. — W.S. Gilbert

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Neal Boortz

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. — Neal Boortz

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Mason Cooley

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. — Mason Cooley

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Ayn Rand

The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained. — Ayn Rand

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Noelle Hancock

Procrastination is the lazy cousin of fear.When we feel anxiety around an activity, we postpone it. — Noelle Hancock

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Ashwin Sanghi

A free society is one where it's safe to be unpopular, but then, freedom of speech also carries with it the freedom not to listen! — Ashwin Sanghi

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Richard Le Gallienne

Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill. — Richard Le Gallienne

Unpopular Speech Quotes By John Paul Stevens

In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular. — John Paul Stevens

Unpopular Speech Quotes By Leila Fadel

Well, human rights defenders, freedom of speech advocates, lawyers that we spoke to said this is really an expansion. After the military ouster of Egypt's unpopular, but elected Islamist president in 2013, we saw political opponents being arrested by the thousands, really. Then we saw a popular comedian go off the air out of fear of retribution. — Leila Fadel