Action Quote by Gore Vidal

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying…

— Gore Vidal

“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a…

— John Ayto

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

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive,…

— Doris Lessing

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

— Wade Davis

“The 20th century linguistic revolution is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a…

— Oliver Benjamin

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

— Christian Louboutin

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

— Terence McKenna

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and…

— John Ralston Saul

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet…

— Mary Ellen Chase