Deborah Tannen Quote

Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something — and so little effort of so few to tear it down.

The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words (1998)

Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something — and so little effort ...

Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something — and so little effort ...

Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something — and so little effort ...

Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something — and so little effort ...