Quotes About Language

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

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.

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

The moment you speak something out, you give birth to it. This is a spiritual principle, and it works whether what you are saying is good or bad, positive or negative.