Language Quote by Mark Abley

“The false contrasts which the people, and consequently the language, believes in, are always dangerous fetters which impede the march of truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,”

— Ava Dellaira

“The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.”

— Donald Woods Winnicott

“There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.”

— Colum McCann

“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t…

— Glenn Dixon

“After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths”

— Dean Cavanagh

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.”

— Roberto Bolaño