Quote by Smashing Pumpkins

Mutilate the meanings, so they're easy to deny.

— Smashing Pumpkins

“Among people who might be described as having at least a passing regard for the English language, there are few instances of usage that…

— Ammon Shea

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

— Ernest Holmes

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

— Stephen Young

“Our sacred literature does not use obscure language, but describes most things in words clearly indicating their meaning. Therefore it is necessary at all…

— Samson Raphael Hirsch

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

— Mercedes Ruehl

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

— Evelyn Waugh

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

— Hilda Doolittle

They condemn what they do not understand.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

— Frank Zappa