Betray Quote by Terence McKenna

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

— Jeanette Winterson

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

— Nicole Brossard

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

— Abraham Maslow

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

— Rita Mae Brown

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and…

— John Ralston Saul

Language is very deceiving. In certain languages, there is certain vocabulary that doesn't exist in other languages. It totally changes how people feel about…

— Jenova Chen

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

— Karl Jaspers

Language disguises thought.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

— George Orwell

War is what happens when language fails.

— Margaret Atwood

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

— Max Barry