Jamie Lesman > Jamie's Quotes

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
― Matt Groening

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
― Desmond Tutu

“Nelson Mandela once said, '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.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood