“ Language has everything to do with oppression and liberation. When the word "victory" means conquer vs. harmony and the word "equality" means homogenization vs. unity in/through diversity, then the li… Cristina Marrero
“ Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness. Philip Zaleski
“ Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete? Nataly Kelly
“ Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of Go… Stephen Fry
“ Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator. Nataly Kelly
“ If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong. Noam Chomsky
“ The sage does not become trapped in semantics, does not mistake map for territory, but rather "opens things up to the light of Heaven" by flowing with the words, by playing with the words. Once attune… Hakim Bey
“ Colorless green ideas sleep furiouslythree old owls on a chest of drawerswere screwingthe daughter of the doctor.But then the mother called them,colorless green ideas slepp furiously. Umberto Eco
“ Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have… Clarice Lispector
“ Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible. Robin Flower
“ It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect pedigree of mankind, a genealogical arrangement of the races of man would af… Charles Darwin
“ Our vocabulary may become a real time algorithmic word bank. Could you imagine having a conversation like that? Where the meaning of words constantly adapts? Natasha Tsakos
“ The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war… Simon S. Tam
“ When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. George Steiner
“ Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born. Aldous Huxley
“ Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are "coined" words, forms that have been in one way or another created, augmented… Mario Andrew Pei
