Respect for the word is the first commandment in the discipline by which a man can be educated to maturity - intellectual, emotional and moral.
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptable heart-felt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.
To misuse the word is to show the contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.
Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, p.101
They never are 'only words' when these words help us to find a way towards Truth. But it's a pity that many people still use them to walk the opposite way, to conceal Truth, that Truth which is so scary and uncomfortable.
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