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.
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Author : Thomas Paine
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Author : Winston Churchill
I’ve always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
Author : Adrian Edmondson
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space.
Author : Marc Garneau
My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I’ve always been Chelsea.
Author : Eric Bristow
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
Author : Rudyard Kipling
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Author : Roland Barthes
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Author : Terry Pratchett
