Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing. - S. I. Hayakawa
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
- S. I. Hayakawa
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. - S. I. Hayakawa
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. - S. I. Hayakawa
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country. - S. I. Hayakawa
Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. - S. I. Hayakawa
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves … - S. I. Hayakawa
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves …
McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor. - S. I. Hayakawa
McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.
If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, see… - S. I. Hayakawa
If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, see…
We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square. - S. I. Hayakawa
We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.
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