“Is ill-language a justification for blows?”
John Pratt (1657–1725) English judge and politician
Case of Hugh Reason and another (1722), 16 How. St. Tr. 44; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 147.
“To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.”
— Emil M. Cioran, book History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
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