Consequences of Speech Quotes

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

It's impossible to utilize your right to free speech in the way you truly deserve and not suffer repercussions on any level.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

[William Jennings Bryan] thinks that to say something is to do something, which is an imperfect view of administration.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

I suppose you have to be careful what you sing, because you might have to do it.

I guess people think if you're well-known, it's perfectly fine to say anything you want. I don't know why that is. But it shouldn't be, because everybody has families and lives.

Politicians need to realise that words have consequences.

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.

If every politician, in or out of government, were made to apologize for injudicious remarks, he would have little time to do anything else.

I know from experience, once something is said on camera, true or false, it follows you forever.

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.

Keep in mind that when public figures get in trouble for something they said, it is usually not because they misspoke, but because they accidentally told the truth.

Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.

I don't remember a time when words were not dangerous.