Language as a Tool Quotes

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

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

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world!

They [the Americans] certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.

We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line.

...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

All big changes of the world come from words.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.

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

Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

Words are nets through which all truth escapes.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

Words are just words.