We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
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There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
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 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.
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
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.
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
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