Quotes about words

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

What is objective must be common to many minds and consequently transmissible from one to the other, and as this transmission can only come about by... discourse... we are even forced to conclude: no discourse no objectivity.

Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe these examples:

In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.

"… Most of the words that airline staff used, or rather most of the sentences into which they were habitually arranged, had been worked so hard that they had died."

FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.

Until now the animals had been about equally divided in their sympathies, but in a moment Snowball’s eloquence had carried them away.