emerson

There were many to chose from, but this one really stood out. "The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. I liked this quote because I could actually understand it. Those who have become corrupt will begin to use corrupt language and utilize the previous innocence of the language to accomplish corrupt tasks. Once been taken advantage of however, those who do not use corrupt language will lose faith in the sublime verity, which they had taken every word stated to hold.  They will begin to see faults in the language even if they are not there, and they will not blindly accept statements as they are. This can be seen in politics. Politicians stretch the truth and misrepresent information with such a frequency that those who hear them speaking, regardless of whether they are telling the truth, will begin to doubt the verity of their statements. Thus, the statements lose their value. This, however, would never had occurred if the language had never been abused in the first place.