Assuming Quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as…

— Noam Chomsky

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

The most fundamental feature of language is that it allows us to exchange thought. In conversations we connect the private world of our minds…

— Kumar Anupam

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

A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in…

— Allan Bloom

I can't think of how many meetings I've sat through where people have explained that language has become less important because we now live…

— Michael Rosen

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

— Adrienne Rich

“Because language and society are so closely linked, it is possible, in some cases, to encourage social change by directing attention towards linguistic reflections…

— Peter Trudgill

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

I think that language matters. I think that people who are in public life have an opportunity to help the public understand issues and…

— Maya Harris

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay…

— Abraham Maslow

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir