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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.


Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
VOLTAIRE I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
CLAUDE ARIEN HELVETIUS I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
VOLTAIRE I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
S.G. TALLENTYRE I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
VOLTAIRE I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
TOM STOPPARD I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
OSCAR WILDE I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of su...
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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S. G. TALLENTYRE I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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DEYTH BANGER I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
JACK KEVORKIAN We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON The great thing about our country is we all get to say what we feel and believe. Whether you agree w...
JOEL MADDEN You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE What you do, say, and have reveal who you are.
LORRIN L. LEE In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And ...
PARKER POSEY Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY I say always follow your passion, no matter what, because even if it's not the same financial su...
ELLEN DEGENERES Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN There is nothing I ever need to have. There is nothing I ever need to do. I say NO to the demands of...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
EMINEM The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy,...
JOHN MCCAIN Republicans have come up to me to say, 'Hey listen. My knee hurts. What do you think I should do...
RAUL RUIZ I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been...
ANDRAE CROUCH What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have t...
HOWARD SCHULTZ Suicide thought is a negative force that needs to be overcome with a positive force,positive thinkin...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is never the solution to life's problems but hope.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When the mind is filled with positivity the thoughts of suicide becomes virtually non existing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Lawyers don't serve everyone... Lawyers right now can say, 'I'm not the person to help y...
BILL HASLAM The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'l...
PAT BENATAR I always say that when it comes to picking a single, firstly you have to go with what feels right an...
ELLA HENDERSON I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm...
ELIZABETH GILBERT They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageab...
IGGY AZALEA Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do ev...
JENNIFER TILLY You couldn’t say: It’s not my fault. You couldn’t say: It’s not my responsibility. You could...
TERRY PRATCHETT What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ...
LISA J. SHULTZ Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yea...
BRUCE GREENWOOD I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousa...
MARK WAID If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' t...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
MAE WEST You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo...
SAM HUNTINGTON Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
LILLIAN HELLMAN I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you ne...
BLAKE LIVELY Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The word "yoga" literally means "uniting," because when you're doing it you're uniting your mind and...
ELLEN DEGENERES The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI When you say sorry to someone, do not swear on what you did and why you did, i.e. to say, you do not...
APURVA GAGLANI As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say t...
IDRIS ELBA When someone tells me, 'Oh, we have so many problems on Earth; space exploration costs too much ...
MARY ROACH What right does the governor have to say who I do business with and who I don?t do business with?
DAN GROGAN I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I...
DAVID RUBENSTEIN Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. ...
S. G. TALLENTYRE Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I would say three-quarters of what I do depends on the sincerity of it. You can croak, but if you cr...
JOHNNY MATHIS I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But wh...
ETGAR KERET Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's ...
EDWARD WHITACRE, JR. People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to...
JESSICA SIMPSON The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they...
DICK COSTOLO The word "yoga" literally means "uniting", because when you're doing it you are uniting your mind an...
ELLEN DEGENERES Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. ...
HOWARD DEAN I know that the president will listen to what Senator Frist has to say. I'm not saying he's going to...
ARLEN SPECTER They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your...
STEVE EARLE There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wa...
FRANK LUNTZ I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I...
PADDY CONSIDINE Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend t...
BRYANT MCGILL I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.
VERONICA ROTH But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, ...
BARNEY FRANK I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going ...
ERIC SCHMIDT Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yea...
BRUCE GREENWOOD I think we have been able to clarify issues, ... I do not want to say it does not mean that in all d...
MARTTI AHTISAARI When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,&#...
JUDY BLUME My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can...
NATASCHA MCELHONE If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call i...
AVISHAI MARGALIT It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go...
NORM MACDONALD

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EVELYN GLENNIE I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big differe...
EVELYN GLENNIE The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a ce...
EVELYN WAUGH To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded atten...
EVELYN KEYES I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendsh...
EVELYN WAUGH Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable...
EVELYN WAUGH It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitabl...
EVELYN WAUGH Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be
EVELYN WAUGH Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I ...
EVELYN GLENNIE The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. No...
EVELYN LAUDER We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
EVELYN WAUGH We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
EVELYN WAUGH I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just t...
EVELYN GLENNIE She was a diamond in a quarry full of quartz.
EVELYN SKYE Imagine, and it shall be.
There are no limits.⁠⁠⁠⁠
EVELYN SKYE Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, bu...
EVELYN LAUDER To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being bl...
EVELYN SCOTT Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.
EVELYN HENDRICKSON All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
EVELYN WAUGH What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
EVELYN WAUGH Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds,...
EVELYN LAU It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable ...
EVELYN WAUGH Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opre...
EVELYN CUNNINGHAM And so we take a holiday, a vacation, to gain release from this bondage for a space, to stand back f...
EVELYN UNDERHILL I am a first generation immigrant and a woman, but I don't really write about that because I feel li...
EVELYN RODRIGUEZ I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.
EVELYN RODRIGUEZ It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable...
EVELYN WAUGH After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritat...
EVELYN UNDERHILL What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGH