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.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

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

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

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

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.