Quotes About Communication

Where words fail, music speaks.

The conductor of an orchestra doesn't make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

If you think you can experience the power of the Internet on a 1-inch screen, you've got to be out of your mind.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

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

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.