Degrade Quote by Northrop Frye Download Open image “There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.” — Northrop Frye ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Degrade Inspirational Language Mankind One way Way
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
“The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…” — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Language allows us to talk about the past and plan the future. We can teach children about things that are not present. And above… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Tendintele autoritate ale conservatorismului trebuie corectate prin mituri ale libertatii, in vreme ce un simt conservator al ordinii trebuie sa tempereze tendintele liberalismului spre… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life. — David Trimble Copy Share Image
