Classifying Quote by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us…

— Laura Schlessinger

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

— Dorothee Solle

The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the…

— Jan Morris

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is…

— Sheila Rowbotham

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

“Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon…

— Daniel S. Fletcher

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

— Socrates

“The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and…

— Toni Morrison

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

— Anonymous

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

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

— Jeremy Bentham