Esperanto Quotes

• I can speak Esperanto like a native.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Italian, Doubt, Vices

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• My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Advice, Would Be, Movement

  "A Philologist on Esperanto". The British Esperantist, May 1932.

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• The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

  George Steiner

  Life, Music, Fashion

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• Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

  George Soros

  Found Someone, Language, Speak

  "How Do You Say ‘Billionaire’ in Esperanto?" by Alison Leigh Cowan, cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com. December 16, 2010.

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• If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Speak English, Gold, Facts

  "The Gold Standard". Excerpt from chapter 17 of "Human Action, The Scholar's Edition", book by Ludwig von Mises, mises.org. 1949.

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• Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

  Richard Bach

  Book, Needs, Knows

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• It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Discovery, Legends

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'd say I dream in Esperanto. Sometimes I remember some dreams in another language, but dreaming in languages no, but figures yes, my psychology is this way.

  Pope Francis

  Dream, Psychology, Way

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

  Nick Hornby

  People, Common, Language

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• The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

  Joe Hill

  Language, Sin, Universal

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• What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?

  Arika Okrent

  Dog, Yoga, World

  Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.114, Spiegel & Grau

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• I did a movie in Esperanto.

  William Shatner

  Movie, Actors

  "It's 'Shatner's World' And He Wants You To See It". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 18, 2012.

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• When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.

  Allen Lacy

  Latin, Names, Needs

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

  Richard Bach

  Reading, Book, Knives

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