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There is a weird power in a spoken word.
— Joseph Conrad
If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
— Rita Mae Brown
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
— Rebecca Solnit
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
— Mohsin Hamid
Power floats like money, like language, like theory.
— Jean Baudrillard
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.
— Lionel Jospin
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
— Paul Goodman
I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.
— Fiona Maazel
I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.
— Ilana Glazer
God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.
— Francis Asbury
So often what is really nothing short of a power grab is cast in the lofty language of 'progress.
— Charles C.W. Cooke
I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
— W. H. Auden
UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.
— Robert Webb
A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.
— Debasish Mridha
The menu is not the meal.
— Alan W. Watts
The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.
— Marilyn French
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.
— Frantz Fanon
Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul
— George Crumb
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
— Carlos Fuentes
New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.
— Douglas Coop
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
— Martin Buber
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.
— Malidoma Patrice Some
Music is a second language to my heart.
— Mara Arps
Besides language and music mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
— Hermann Weyl
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
— Catharine A. MacKinnon
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.
— Ruzwana Bashir
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
— Marcus Du Sautoy
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
— Cynthia Ozick
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
— Alexander P. De Seversky
Language was a code, like numbers, he said, and depended just as much on rhythm for its power
— Blue Balliett
What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.
— Ludwig Feuerbach
Music is the universal language of mankind.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.
— Roxanne McKee
We have no language that is free of the power dualisms of domination.
— Beverly Wildung Harrison
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes — John Clare
It is said that life and death are under the power of language.
— Helene Cixous
That your power of commandwith simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
— Aldous Huxley
That is the foremost fundamental law: language has the power to create reality. When spoken, a thing exists.
— Claudia Serrano
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
— Kahlil Gibran
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
— Alan W. Watts
The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.
— Mark Pearce
Mastery of language affords remarkable power.
— Frantz Fanon
But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the power of language.
— Sandor Marai
Anger is the fire of the soul, love is the language of the heart ...
— Stephen Richards
