Giving Quote by Lenny Bruce Download Open image “It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.” — Lenny Bruce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Giving Language Power Power Violence Suppression Suppression Word Viciousness Violence Violence Viciousness
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it. — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people. — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
I believe absolutely that words must be treated as material weapons, every invective or threat as violence and aggression. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous,… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate, and their comment would be, 'He's really slaughtering Nixon.' Then we would… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Dig: I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish. B'nai B'rith is goyish; Hadassah, Jewish. If you live in New… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
“Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.” — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
