Esperanto Quotes

“What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?”
― Arika Okrent, In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

“Mia intereso pri lingvoj sendube fontas el mia junaĝa malkovro de esperanto,”
― Claude Piron, La bona lingvo

“− Se nur ĝi ne devis okazi en mia epoko, − diris Frodo.
− Tiel pensas ankaŭ mi, − diris Gandalfo, − kaj tiel pensas ĉiuj, kiuj travivas tiajn epokojn. Sed tion ne ili decidas. Ni rajtas decidi nur tion, kion fari dum la tempo allasita al ni.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Baf!" diris Scrooge. "Sensencaĵo!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Ho, mia Dio! Oni povus enfermi min en ŝelon de nukso kaj mi rigardus min kiel reĝon de vastegaj spacoj, se nur miaj malbonaj sonĝoj min ne turmentus.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Ultimately Zamenhof’s language [Esperanto] was and is more than a proposed solution to the language problem: it is an attempt to confront the spirit of inequality, of intolerance, of hatred that is tearing apart our beautiful world.”
― Humphrey Tonkin

“He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might be a good thing to have a universal language, as Latin had once been. Oh, yes, Miss Woolf said, a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.”
― Kate Atkinson

“Mr. Deacon, on the other hand, was in favour of abolishing, or ignoring, the existing world entirely, with a view to experimenting with one of an entirely different order. He was a student of Esperanto (or, possibly, one of the lesser-known artificial languages), intermittently vegetarian, and an advocate of decimal coinage.”
― Anthony Powell

“Ĉu ĝi estas malpli karcero, ĉar mankas ferstangoj ĉe la fenestroj?”
― Cezaro Rossetti, Kredu min, sinjorino!

“Mi konstatis, ke la potenca forto de la patriotismo, kiu profundiĝas en la koron, estis absolute senpova penetri en la poŝon.”
― Cezaro Rossetti, Kredu min, sinjorino!

“Amo ne faras malbonon al proksimulo; amo do estas la plenumado de la leĝo. (Romanoj 13.10)”
― La Sankta Biblio

“kuri kaj flari;
kuri, fosi kaj boji...
hundetaj sonĝoj”
― Steven D. Brewer, Senokulvitre

“Unue, ni konsideras Esperantan movadon esti burĝa afero; due, oni havas malbonan opinion pri la celo de Esperanto, ĉar ja multaj opinias, ke Esperanto celas malaperigi la vivantajn lingvojn kaj anstataŭigi ilin per si; fine, oni ne estas konvinkitaj pri la pruvita taŭgebleco de nia lingvo.”
― Adriaan Kloek

“The study of human languages ​​is fundamental to the creation of a simple universal language, which should be taught as a second language to everyone, like Esperanto. Language acts as an element of differentiation and exclusion, having a political function by restricting the full realization of people and societies. The limits of my language are the limits of my world. The non-implementation of a world language and its politicization, as in the case of English, prevent the strengthening of more stable ties between nations and advocate the maintenance of the current state. Marx, when thinking about global change, perhaps reflected on the means of implementation (positive and negative) – the ideology, the focal point, the base, the language and the channels of dispersion. Without a common language (in the ideological sense too), it is impossible for people to organize themselves in favor of any cause. However, the march of progress is inevitable, and humanity will realize that it can only advance by breaking down the barriers that limit us, those that prevent everyone from uniting in favor of a golden future. Today this may seem unusual, but in the future it will be a cliché.”
― Geverson Ampolini