Class Quote by Don Watson

The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning…

— Deena Metzger

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

— Jackson Browne

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

— Colin Wilson

“When corporate executives get really excited, they leverage their learnings against comprehension to revolutionize English.”

— Tanya Thompson

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

— Deborah Tannen

“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

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

— Neville Brody

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the…

— Jay Griffiths

“To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority…

— Robert Lane Greene

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

— Leon Wieseltier

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and,…

— Jurgen Habermas