Human language Quote by Thomas Paine

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if…

— C. S. Lewis

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

— Adrienne Rich

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by…

— Jacques Ellul

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

— Anonymous

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

— Jose Saramago

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Language can do what it can’t say.

— William Stafford

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique…

— Daniel Everett

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

— Italo Calvino

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

— Leon Wieseltier

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

— Garth Stein