Language Quote by Andrew Vachss

“These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear. Impugn a…

— Paul Auster

“...words are always imperfect, words are just sounds we make with our mouths that point our minds to think of things that cannot be…

— Ivan E. Coyote

“Then for the first time we became aware that our language lacks words to express this offence, the demolition of a man. In a…

— Primo Levi

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit…

— Francis Bacon

“The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths”

— Dean Cavanagh

“We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best…

— R. Scott Bakker

“We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to…

— Theodor Adorno

“It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of…

— Italo Calvino

“...be aware of the fact that words, in and by themselves, have no reality, except in terms of the context in which they are…

— Erich Fromm

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to…

— Samuel Johnson

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

— James F. Cooper