Causes Quote by William Lloyd Garrison

It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

— Edmund Burke

The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not so conspicuous,…

— Mary McCarthy

Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

— Jimenez Lai

I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the…

— Maggie Nelson

There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most…

— Noam Chomsky

A language is a map of our failures

— Adrienne Rich

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay…

— Abraham Maslow

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

— Terence McKenna

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

— Mark Helprin

War is what happens when language fails.

— Margaret Atwood

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

— Barbara Kruger

“Empty words degrade language.”

— Toba Beta