Language

The most important medium for social co-operation is language. Language bridges the chasm between individuals and only with its help can one man communicate to another something at least of what he is feeling . . . without it, there could be no thought but only instinct, no will but only impulse.

Socialism, p. 286

Nothing links men more closely together than a community of language, and nothing segregates them more effectively than a difference of language.

Omnipotent Government, p. 123

With the progress of the semantic confusion which has converted the meaning of political terms into their very opposite, the epithet “democratic” is now lavishly spent.

Human Action, p. 838; p. 842

Community of language binds and difference of language separates persons and peoples.

Nation, State, and Economy, p. 13

Thought is bound up with speech. The thinker’s conceptual edifice is built on the elements of language.

Socialism, p. 286

Whoever wants to speak with his fellow men and to understand what they say must use their language. Everyone must therefore strive to understand and speak the language of his environment. For that reason individuals and minorities adopt the language of the majority.

Nation, State, and Economy, pp. 27–28

Once the youth learns the language of the country, however, there begins that process of adaptation to the environment that finally leads to complete assimilation.

Nation, State, and Economy, p. 117