The Dreaming Up Daily Quote

"Our society, which treats us so much as an audience to be entertained and as consumers to be led to market, often uses language as an anesthetic. If verbal blandishments can encourage us to sit back and relax, we can be taken care of in more ways that one. And unless we're trained to be alert to the use of language we're likely to end up duped. The simple fact is we cannot afford to be careless with our language, because if we are careless with our language then we are careless with our world and sooner or later we will be lost for words to describe what we have allowed to happen to it."

John Humphrys