Culture Quote by KAPUSCINSKI RYSZARD

The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language.

— Ilya Prigogine

“The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached ... We see and hear…

— Edward Sapir

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact…

— Edward Sapir

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the…

— Carmen Boullosa

“He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.”

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Muriel Barbery

“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

“There are those who eagerly learn another language to be one with another culture, then there are those morons who insist on the exclusive…

— Abhijit Naskar

“I think flexibility, humility, and multilingualism should take the place of sticklerism, arrogance, and nationalism when we think about language. I”

— Robert Lane Greene

“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows…

— Kató Lomb

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

— Adrienne Rich