Adversaries Quote by Richard Diebenkorn

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

— John Ralston Saul

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

— Harold S. Geneen

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

— Jacob Burckhardt

One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating…

— Herbert Marcuse

The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of…

— David Hume

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

— Anonymous

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

— Will Durant

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free…

— Ronald Fisher

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

— Jeanette Winterson

For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just…

— Warren Buffett

Words are powerful. They have the ability to create a moment and the strength to destroy it.

— Anonymous