Herds Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

— Huey Newton

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

— William Safire

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

— Hugh Prather

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a…

— Michael Nesmith

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

— Bruce McCulloch

Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?

— Emma Watson

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain…

— Aimee Mann

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

— Lenny Bruce

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

— Charles Simmons