„The war is language,language abusedfor Advertisement,language usedlike magic for power on the planet.“

— Allen Ginsberg

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„War is what happens when language fails.“
— Margaret Atwood
„It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. … Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends…“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien