If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
You couldn't have human society without language.
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
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.