Able Quote by Toni Morrison

“There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.”

— Colum McCann

“Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is…

— Anonymous

“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and…

— Dean Koontz

“[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment…

— Charles Dickens

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“I grant you that, if you'll admit, as I do, that we are pawns of an unknown force that lives within us that dictates…

— Jean Cocteau

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“When language arrives at its own edge, what it finds is not a positivity that contradicts it, but the void that will efface it.…

— Michel Foucault

“the misery of war represented the world’s only truly universal language. Its”

— Omar El Akkad

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“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

“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make and unmake…

— Carolina De Robertis