Certain Quote by Tom Lehrer

It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of…

— Steven Pinker

Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use…

— Edmund White

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

Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

— George Bernard Shaw

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

— Edwin Newman

Language is the primary way we communicate with each other, and we have really strong feelings about what words mean, and about good language…

— Kory Stamper

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are…

— Garth Stein

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

— Jane Goodall

Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

There is undoubtedly much to learn about the social uses of language, for communication or for other purposes. But at present there is not…

— Noam Chomsky

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

— Charlton Laird