2,489 Quotes About Language

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.