The American language is in a state of flux based upon…

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

— Frank Church

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

— John McCarthy

“Vehicular Darwinism based on survival of the quickest.”

— Raymond L. Atkins

And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in the history…

— Herbert Spencer

I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths…

— Joseph Brodsky

And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival…

— Herbert Spencer

“Poetry is the language of the state of crisis”

— Beat poet

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

— Anonymous

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and…

— William Graham Sumner

What I am doing is creating a language. A different American language.

— Cecil Taylor

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

— Henry Adams

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

— Rudyard Kipling

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

— Salvador de Madariaga

My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.' The big…

— Paula Broadwell

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

— Michael Douglas