Antiquity Quote by Casey Miller Download Open image “From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.” — Casey Miller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Antiquity Connections Inspirational Love People Power
We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him. — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing;… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.' — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
“So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Throughout the ancient world, naming was a sacred act. It was the word by which a child was called into his calling. It was… — Anne Hamilton Copy Share Image
conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning… — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly… — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity. — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“Educated and ambitious, with their own forthright opinions, the women of the Garvey set did more to determine political direction than many councillors. Their… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
