Comparison Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

— Roman Jakobson

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

— Joseph Brodsky

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are…

— Amy Tan

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

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose…

— Rosalie Maggio

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture,…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

— Barack Obama

Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses -…

— David Foster Wallace

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

— Siri Hustvedt

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it…

— Franz Kafka

“institutional facts in general require language because the language is partly constitutive of the facts. But”

— John Rogers Searle