Argument Quote by Deborah Cameron

“Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.”

— Robert Lane Greene

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and over-simplifies. Hopefully,”

— Daniel M. Ingram

“The only way to defend language is to attack it…' - Proust. Every good writer in history had, in order to ensure adequate expression,…

— Alain de Botton

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and oversimplifies.”

— Daniel M. Ingram

“Another issue was language, the problem of expressing these themes in language and the problem of how much one can articulate in language.”

— Gao Xingjian

“the soundness of an argument depends on its content and logical structure rather than on who offers it.”

— John Corvino

“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the…

— Robert Lane Greene

“Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“--and in fact, we humans need conflict just like we need language, to help us define who we are.”

— Mark Stephen Meadows

“The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious…

— Chinua Achebe