Top 28 Quotes About Language Diversity

#1. For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

Nelson Mandela

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#2. The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man.

George Steiner

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#3. If the humanities were science, the vocabularies of the world's languages would add up, not overlap.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

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#4. No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

Cal Thomas

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#5. Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections continue to evolve. No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

Willard Van Orman Quine

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#6. The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

E. O. Wilson

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#7. I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict
the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.

Patricia Geary

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#8. America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Ernest Istook

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#9. Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.

Eduardo Galeano

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#10. The diversity of language alienates man from man

Saint Augustine

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#11. I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land
every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike
all snored in the same language.

Malcolm X

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#12. The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.

Colin Wilson

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#13. Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.

Michael Douglas

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#14. Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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#15. Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

Helder Camara

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#16. Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.

David Schwarzer

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#17. Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best.

Chelsea Peretti

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#18. I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories.

Julianne Moore

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#19. Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

Deborah Levy

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#20. Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

John Amos Comenius

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#21. The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.

Marshall McLuhan

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#22. If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here.

June Jordan

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#23. Bound by a common identity grounded in language and history, the Arabs are all the more fascinating for their diversity. They are one people and many peoples at the same time.

Eugene Rogan

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#24. Great is language ... it is the mightiest of the sciences,
It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth ... and of men and women ... and of all qualities and processes;
It is greater than wealth ... it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music.

Walt Whitman

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#25. I can see that 'Switched at Birth' is attracting audiences because of the diversity and the American Sign Language as well. American Sign Language is such a beautiful language, and people want more of that.

Sean Berdy

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#26. I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

Debra Winger

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#27. The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.

Anton Chekhov

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#28. If God had so wished, he could have made all Indians speak one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

Rabindranath Tagore

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