Behinds Quote by Andrei Codrescu

Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

— Adrienne Rich

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

— Desmond Tutu

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

— Dale Spender

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far…

— Margaret Atwood

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in…

— Adrienne Rich

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.”

— Fereidoon Yazdi

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

— Adrienne Rich

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication, and knowledge is generated through social interaction.... Language is the vehicle through which we…

— Diana Whitney