Avoidance Quote by Janet Frame

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

— Chogyam Trungpa

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and…

— Ted E. Brewerton

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

— Kate DiCamillo

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

— Abraham Maslow

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for…

— Audre Lorde

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before…

— Paul Nouge

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of…

— Abraham Maslow

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

— Mason Cooley

Language is necessary. We express through it.

— Sanjay Mishra

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

— Melina Marchetta

...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the…

— Ani DiFranco