Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:
“I know that human good fortune never remains in the same place.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)