Complex civilization is hectic... such hunters and collectors of wild food as the Shoshone are among the most leisured people on earth. - Peter Farb

Freedom of speech does not exist anywhere, for every community on earth forbids the use of certain sounds, words, and sentences in various speech situations. ...the habitual liar faces social sanctions ...Speakers are not allowed to misrepresent... to defame other people in public, to maliciously shout "Fire!" in a crowded movie theater, or to utter obscenities on the telephone.

The colors that a speaker "sees" often depend very much on the language he speaks, because each language offers its own high-codability color terms.

Wilhelm von Humboldt... stated that the structure of language expresses the inner life of its speakers: "Man lives with the world about him, principally, indeed exclusively, as language presents it."