People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up exactly where he started, simply because words are defined in terms of other words, and these, in turn, are defined in terms of still other words.

In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.

A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.