Language Quotes
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“Change your language and you change your thoughts.”
-- Karl Albrecht
You probably know that many of the world's plants and animals are in danger of extinction, but did you know that many human languages are in danger of becoming extinct, too? Globalization has helped to make the world a smaller place. But it has also contributed to the loss of many languages around the world. Every two weeks another language disappears forever! Once a language is lost, humanity loses a part of our rich heritage. Helping to preserve endangered languages is important to keep traditions alive.
-- Robert Alan
* "We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race."
-- Kofi AnnanLanguage is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
-- Angela CarterIf our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
-- Jacques Chirac
* “Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”
-- Noam Chomsky
“If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.”
-- Confucius
* There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.
~ John Denver
* Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson* “Language is the archives of history”
~ Ralph Waldo EmersonLanguage is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
~ Ralph Waldo EmersonA different language is a different vision of life.
~Federico Fellini
Language Quotes
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Kofi Annan| Noam Chomsky | John Denver
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Aldous Huxley | Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Language Day - February 21
