When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
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We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
War is what happens when language fails.
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.
Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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