Community Quote by Octavio Paz

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to…

— David Crystal

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

“Because language and society are so closely linked, it is possible, in some cases, to encourage social change by directing attention towards linguistic reflections…

— Peter Trudgill

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

— Edward Sapir

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

— Jeanette Winterson

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

Language is by its very nature a communal thing...

— T. E. Hulme

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and…

— Edward Hirsch

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it…

— Terence McKenna

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is…

— Anonymous