Babylon Quote by Dean Cavanagh

“The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious…

— Chinua Achebe

“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and…

— Dean Koontz

“Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

— George Orwell

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

— Anna Deavere Smith

“The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…”

— Daniel S. Fletcher

“ 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think;…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A…

— Rashid Khalidi

“A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.”

— John R. Dallas Jr

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

— Noam Chomsky

“...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk…

— Robert K. Tanenbaum

“Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of…

— Edmund Burke

“MOST legislators have been men of inferior capacity whom chance exalted over their fellows, and who took counsel almost exclusively of their own prejudices…

— Montesquieu