Case Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure

Language is a social institution.

— RMKATTA

“Working on the editorial page had sharpened Whitney's mind and coarsened her feelings, so she treated every subject as theoretical and abstract. Devil's advocate?…

— Laura Lippman

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“And language, (...) is not just another faculty or skill, it is what makes thought possible, what seperates thought from nonthought, what seperates the…

— Oliver Sacks

“language is precisely designed to be a self-identifying category of institutional facts. The”

— John Rogers Searle

“When I was an undergraduate, the censors attacked the university from without. Now, they are entrenched in the faculties and administrations themselves. Then, the…

— David Horowitz

“A language is a means of communication and should be lived rather than taught.”

— Benny Lewis

My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution)…

— Patrick Henry

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

— John Rogers Searle

“Learning a language is one of the tangible endeavors to help eliminate hate from the world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“We now live in the Esperantists’ dreamworld, but the universal language of natural science is English, a language that is the native tongue of…

— Michael D. Gordin

It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.

— Ian Hacking