The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on Earth.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker claims human speech ruins or corrupts everything.
- In plain terms
- Human speech ruins things.
- What can you take from it?
- Be mindful of what you say.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Does speech always ruin?
- What can't be desecrated?
Another view
It overlooks positive communication.
More from J. D. Salinger
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Permalink to quote #31 Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When wa…
Permalink to quote #33 How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'
Permalink to quote #30
Related quotes
I detrattori della corruptibilita meriterebber d'esser cangiati in statue.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei quote #1 Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature? Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing…
Walker PercyWalker Percy quote #14 The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who diss…
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill quote #20