"When words lose their meaning, people lose..." - Quote by Confucius
When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.
More by Confucius
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
“The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.”
“Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?”
More on Language
“Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.”
“Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?”
“Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.”
More on Truth
“Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”
“Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears”
“The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.”