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"Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves."
"Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you."
"I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death."
"People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?"
"One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them."
"He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled."
"How is power of speech (vacchanbud) attained? It is when, not a single word is uttered to make fun of others; when not a single word is uttered for wrong selfish motives, material self-gain; when speech has not been misused; when speech has not been used to gain recognition or importance from others - that is when one's power of speech is attained."
"To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a sign of going to a lower life form in the next birth."
Explore more quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
"The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels."
"Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."
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