2,489 Quotes About Language

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

But they are not going to talk to us in the language of threats.

Languages are true analytical methods.

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.