Language - a collection of the apprehensive

Speech is a subtle, ubiquitous instrument to aver and to exert control of others and, respectively, to accept or to debunk and to repel control by others.

"Use of language reflects ideology."
(Bealey, Frank: "The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science", Oxford 1999, p. 249f.)

Most of the employees were the hard-boiled, Americanized, go-getting type to whom nothing in the world is sacred, except money. They had their cynical code worked out. The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Chapter 3

"It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be." (O'Brien)
George Orwell, 1984 - Part 3, Chapter 2