Alphabet Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

— Rita Mae Brown

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Adrienne Rich

“although culture is a creation of speech, it is recreated anew by every medium of communication—from painting to hieroglyphs to the alphabet to television.…

— Neil Postman

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

— Simon Van Booy

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be…

— Dan Winters

I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that…

— Hal Whitehead

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

— Angela Carter

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

— Julia Penelope

“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