"The purpose of all opprobrious language is,..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.
More by C S Lewis
“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
“Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.”
“Nothing is really ours until we share it.”
More on Language
“Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.”
“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
“George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.”
More on Conflict
“Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.”
“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”
“If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.”