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«Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
domination, liberation, The Domination
«Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.»
«Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.»
«Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, affections, arising, bases, broad, broadest, broads, close to, construction, constructions, dictionary, generations, ground, joys, low, Makers, tastes, The Makers, ties
«Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
armory, conquests, contains, human mind, trophies, trophy, weapons
«Language is memory and metaphor»
«Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
classification, classifications, code, legislation
«Language is the archives of history»
«Language is fossil poetry»
«Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote»
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