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Brave people, be careful of the things you say! / Everything can come out of a word that you lose in passing. / Everything, hatred and mourning!"
: In his famous poem
The Word
, Victor Hugo warns against the invincible contagion of slander, the venomous power of language.
The book by journalist Monique Atlan and philosopher Roger-Pol Droit
When Speech Destroys
immerses us in this fascinating and universal issue.
With all due respect to the antispecists, language is indeed man's own.
Because, unlike animal cries, human language is not innate, but acquired, it is not unique, but incredibly diverse, and it is not fixed forever, but constantly evolving.
“We are only men and we hold to each other only by word,”
writes Montaigne.
This is why, in almost all the great civilizations (with the notable exception of China, where silence is king), the both beneficial and deadly power of speech is central.
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