I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

You can stroke people with words.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Y’all are so cute and y’all talk so proper over here. I love England.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Language is wine upon the lips.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.