Speak

Famous quotes containing the word speak:

“You speak a’th’people
As if you were a god, to punish; not
A man of their infirmity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)