Able Quote by Benjamin Franklin

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

— Noam Chomsky

I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take for granted…

— Sjon

English is a second language in most of the educated sectors of Europe and much of the world. But maybe in the future Chinese…

— Noam Chomsky

As long as a language lives, the war will not perish.

— Vikrant Parsai

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

— Elif Batuman

It will be, I suppose, a foolhardy Government that tries to push through legislation making knowledge of both official languages one of the qualifications…

— Judy LaMarsh

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel…

— Jomo Kenyatta

With all the divisive forces tearing at our country, we need the glue of language to help hold us together. If we want to…

— Bob Dole

Indeed, which will be scattered and broken yet moment we language will be its hostile

— Mak_786

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

— Cullen Murphy

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing…

— Robert MacNeil

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

— Emile M. Cioran