Change Quote by David Crystal

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

— Joseph de Maistre

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and…

— John Ralston Saul

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud…

— Gilbert Highet

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

— Jean Berko Gleason

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

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

One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be…

— Dan Winters

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

— Edwin Newman

“The progressive intellectualization of language, its progressive conversion by the work of grammar and logic into a scientific symbolism, ... represents not a progressive…

— R.G. Collingwood

The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding…

— Maria Montessori

“Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.”

— Cirilo F. Bautista

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour…

— Spencer W. Kimball