No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.