Quotes About Language

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette?

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Coincidentally, the words RELIGION and BULLSHIT both have eight letters.

We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.