Jean Baudrillard Quotes

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not.

I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual communication between the two species.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.