Australia Quote by Robert Hughes

“Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into…

— Daphne Rose Kingma

“Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.”

— T.F. Hodge

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons,…

— Herman Melville

“Misfortune and experience are lost upon mankind, when they produce neither reflection nor reformation. Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases…

— Thomas Paine

“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the…

— Pat Conroy

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

— Muriel Barbery

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

— Socrates

“It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than…

— Kory Stamper

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

— Ashley Montagu

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…”

— Daniel S. Fletcher

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