End Quote by David Crystal

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

Every time another tribe becomes extinct and their language dies, another way of life and another way of understanding the world disappears forever. Even…

— Stephen Corry

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it…

— Octavio Paz

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my…

— Michael J. Knowles

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

— Karl Jaspers

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

“Language is deeply entwined in the intellectual development of humanity itself, it accompanies the latter upon every step of its localized progression or regression;…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt