Instruments Quote by S. I. Hayakawa

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

— Rita Mae Brown

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

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

— Anonymous

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community…

— Noam Chomsky

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

— Frantz Fanon

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

— T. E. Hulme

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

— Angela Carter

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

“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

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

— Edward Sapir

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

— Lewis Thomas