Critical Quote by Edward Sapir

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content…

— Edward Sapir

All language is political.

— Robin Lakoff

“A language is the joint historical creation of millions of speakers. Although all speakers have some effect on the trajectory of a language, the…

— James C. Scott

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Every Language is a system of systems.

— RMKATTA

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

— Storm Jameson

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

— Robert Lane Greene

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

— Frances Mayes

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

— George Carlin

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

— Joseph Brodsky

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

— Kevin Drum

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz