Language Impact Quotes

The word ‘race’ is ghettoizing language that perpetuates seeing people of color as a different species. The word encourages fear and distrust. Language is the fuel that feeds the great racist generator… for the sake of sharing a common though inaccurate language in order to foster a solution, most of us, myself included, will continue to talk about race as if it actually existed — and racism because it does actually exist.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.

Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

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

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.

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

Language is very important. If you are condoning acts of terror... you are giving credibility to a view that is perverse and is wrong.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.