Quotes of: Political-speech Keyword

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression ...

John Bercow

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation ...

Michael Ignatieff

My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.

Serj Tankian

Violence is itself a form of political mobilisation. It is mainly directed against civilians and not at another army. The aim is to capture territory through political control rather than through military success. And political control is maintained ...

Letters to Gabriella: Angola's Last War for Peace, What the UN Did and Why

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Kin Hubbard

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

Pete Seeger

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

Thomas Carlyle

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

Moby

I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

Susan Cain

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

George Henry Lewes

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

John Mellencamp

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

Colin Powell

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

Ellen Burstyn

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Ira Hayes

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

Bela Kun

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Gilbert Parker