Adversity Quote by Rita Dove

Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a…

— Anonymous

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

— Margaret Atwood

“The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack…

— Mortimer J. Adler

Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and…

— Hannah More

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of…

— Winston Churchill

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

— George W. Bush

“Oppression is built on a series of assumptions, and if they begin to crumble, the system is in grave danger. The assumptions have got…

— Pearl Cleage

“Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will have as a human being...…

— Quraysh Ali Lansana & Georgia A. Popoff

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

— Horace

“It’s not words that fail, it’s the people who wield them. We have no power over life and death, we are subject to pain…

— Jessica Zafra

“Words have power. They can save, cure, uplift, devastate, deflate, and kill. And unconscious priming with words influences pro- and antisocial behaviors.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky