Andrew Breitbart Quotes

What Thucydides said of the Greeks at the time of the Peleponnesian War applies to us at present [1860]. The Greeks did not understand each other any longer, though they spoke the same language; words received a different meaning in different parts.

The diversity of language alienates man from man

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

Two nations divided by a common language.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

A language is a map of our failures

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak.

There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or twoquestions to Minervois in his own language. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something but all I get are wrong words - the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this can't catch her.

In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.