Democratic Quote by John Simon

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words…

— Joshua Foer

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content…

— Edward Sapir

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

— Storm Jameson

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

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

— Edwin Newman

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

— Robin Morgan

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

— Wade Davis

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

“The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious…

— Chinua Achebe

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through…

— Tom Felton

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

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...

— Gore Vidal