Adam Quote by Thomas Hobbes

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him.…

— Frank Moore Cross

“The impediment to the building of Babel—that man must fill the earth—would be eliminated. At that moment it would again be possible for the…

— Paul Auster

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave…

— Elie Wiesel

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

— Louis Aragon

“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

When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but…

— Josephus

“With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader…

— Andrei Codrescu

“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 in other words which submits to its audience, rather than instructing, informing, moving, challenging and even entertaining them, is no longer a language…

— Adam Nicolson

“Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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

— Melina Marchetta

Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we have. I…

— Gregory Orr