Language Quote by Samuel Adams Download Open image “How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” — Samuel Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Tools
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 Copy Share Image
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable? — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“Author Philip Dick once wrote, “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
It is ripe and right time to show that words have actual power lests power becomes so dominent that it shows there are no… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. — Samuel Adams 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.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
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