If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. I had lost faith in the word. Censorship gave it back to me.
Words have no legs, yet they walk.
I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadisticconduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible. Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year.