Alternatives Quote by Robert Bringhurst

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

— Madeleine L'Engle

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

— Alexander Pope

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

— Melina Marchetta

“Examining languages as profoundly different systems of ways of thinking, we can expect from the presumed replacement in the future of the diversity of…

— Oleksander Potebnja

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler…

— Charlton Laird

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

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

“To abandon language is to stop/creating a place other than your own life/in which to live. It is to enter/the terrible certainty of the…

— Jude Nutter

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of…

— Eduardo Galeano

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

— Patricia Ryan

“I think there is a naturally subversive role that writers play in any society, simply because they are trying to use language precisely, whereas…

— Vern Rutsala