Quotes on Linguists

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas...

When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.