S. I. Hayakawa Quote

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.


Language in Action: A Guide to Accurate Thinking, Reading and Writing (ed. 1947)


Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.