20th century Quote by Hanif Kureishi

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

— S. I. Hayakawa

“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

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community…

— Noam Chomsky

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the…

— Linus Torvalds

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my…

— Michael J. Knowles

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

— Steven Pinker

“Linguists have long debated the links between language, culture, and cognition. The theory of linguistic relativity posits that language itself—the specific tongue that we…

— Emily Anthes

“Language is deeply entwined in the intellectual development of humanity itself, it accompanies the latter upon every step of its localized progression or regression;…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

It's commonly assumed that the emergence of language was a key element of the great leap. We of course know very little about the…

— Noam Chomsky

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a…

— Edward R. Murrow