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We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.