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There is a weird power in a spoken word. — Joseph Conrad

Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy. — Deepak Chopra

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

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble — Agona Apell

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

If you want to conquer civilizations, restructure their languages.
Long time ago, even god used this strategy to rule over mankind. — Toba Beta

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

P69- word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone — Paulo Freire

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

There is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language. — Frantz Fanon

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

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. — George Orwell

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

Words are sigils that can hide the coded language of your Soul. — Luis Marques

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

The Republican abuse of the term feminism in the past decade or so is an astonishing lesson in the politically opportunistic use of language. — Nina Power

What was once the language of secrecy is now the language of power. — Sarah Dunant

There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away. — Saul Williams

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

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more. — Antony Sher

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. — Deborah Tannen

There is no word in any traditional European language which does not either denigrate or patronize the urban poor it is naming. That is power. — John Berger

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 is power ... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. — Adrienne Rich

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

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich

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

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim. — Robin Sharma

Language has not the power to speak what love indites
The 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 command
with 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

Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language — Munia Khan

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

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. — Leon Wieseltier

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe. — Mahatma Gandhi

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. — John Erskine

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

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. — Angela Carter