Harsh Language

Famous quotes containing the words harsh and/or language:

“The usual complaint is: I have no other way of earning a living. The harsh reply can be: Do you have to live?”
—Tertullian (c. 150–230)

“The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.”
—Richard Rorty (b. 1931)