Language Quotes

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“Change your language and you change your thoughts.”
-- Karl Albrecht

"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race."
-- Kofi Annan

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
-- Angela Carter

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
-- Jacques Chirac

 

“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”
-- Noam Chomsky


“If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.”
-- Confucius

There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.
~ John Denver

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Language is the archives of history”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A different language is a different vision of life.
~Federico Fellini

 

Language Quotes

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