Language Quotes - page 10

America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice. (Thomas Paine)
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. View quote
William Hazlitt
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation. View quote
Auguste Comte
The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together. View quote
Arthur Compton
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis. View quote
Umberto Eco
There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with. View quote
George Soros
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! View quote
Maria Montessori
We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
... the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element... (Derek Walcott)
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent. View quote
Thomas Hardy
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. View quote
George Boole
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: "Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color." View quote
Thaddeus Stevens
It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. View quote
Jane Wagner
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. View quote
John Donne
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and a smelly fish. View quote
José Rizal
Everyone smiles in the same language. View quote
George Carlin
Government want to tell you things you can't say because they're against the law, or you can't say this because it's against a regulation, or here's something you can't say because its a... secret; "You can't tell him that because he's not cleared to know that." Government wants to control information and control language because that's the way you control thought, and basically that's the game they're in. View quote
George Carlin
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. View quote
Theodor Adorno
The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics. (Theodor Adorno)
Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities. View quote
Gunnar Myrdal
Music is the universal language of mankind.... poetry their universal pastime and delight. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one... View quote
Iannis Xenakis
Mathematics is a language. View quote
Josiah Willard Gibbs