Institutional Quote by John Rogers Searle

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

— John Rogers Searle

Language is a social institution.

— RMKATTA

“I do not think there is a sharp dividing line between either the institutional and the non-institutional or the linguistic and the prelinguistic, but…

— John Rogers Searle

“insights emerging from their primary language”

— Kelly M. Kapic

“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“Language could be used as an instrument of control, a way of establishing hierarchies that suggest one set of people is better or more…

— David Crow

“How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions? . . . Maybe, like so…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and over-simplifies. Hopefully,”

— Daniel M. Ingram

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

— George Saunders

“Is language the adequate expression of all realities?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.”

— Robert Lane Greene