Language Quote by Ray Gwyn Smith Download Open image ““Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?”” — Ray Gwyn Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Oppression Victims War
“i have lost millions and millions of words to fear. tell me that is not violence” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“It was once said that violence is the language of the incompetent. This is something to ponder while remembering that little acts of kindness… — Sean Azimov Copy Share Image
“Let no one ever from henceforth say a word in any way countenancing war. It is dangerous even to speak of how here and… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The most devious and sinister acts of historical violence are always committed by tyrants with armies—not citizens with arms.” — Seth Daniel Parker Copy Share Image
“Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of a part of themselves. It's a crime.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Never take the violence when you are hungry, because violence is the sign of weak people” — M.Rishad Sakhi Copy Share Image
“But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was more violent than making them believe… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.” — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.” — Rehan Waris Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
