English Dominance Quotes

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

The deed is done, the nail is driven, Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

I‘ve said it once and I will say it again, why can‘t everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go — why can‘t other nations?

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

Four guys from England took us all by the hand.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

Somehow, German just vanished at some point. We already started at an early stage to translate our albums, and at some point, we started to write only in English.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.