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We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.