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Do you truly think disagreement, conflict, and war, will vanish once enemies well understand one another? Indeed, would they not, if they truly understood one another, be in a more favorable position to anticipate and prosecute hostilities? Language is not that important. - (Kajira of Gor, Chapter 31, Sentence #58)

"In any event, Priest-Kings, who have such power," said he, "have required that we on this world, for the most part, share a common language, the nature of which they left to us, and it has been composed, at least lexically, of many languages, and is regularly standardized at the great fairs, and elsewhere, by the caste of scribes, who supervise most education, on many levels, on this world". "The Priest-Kings then," I said, "are wise and kind, and intend that by means of a common language all municipalities may well understand one another, and thus disagreement will be obviated, and peace and harmony assured". "It is well that you are pretty," he said, "for you are such a naive little slave. Do you truly think disagreement, conflict, and war, will vanish once enemies well understand one another? Indeed, would they not, if they truly understood one another, be in a more favorable position to anticipate and prosecute hostilities? Language is not that important. What men want is important. Wars, and such, are fought for territory, for mineral wealth, for geopolitical advantage, for ports, for mines, for treasure, for arable land, for slaves, and such, and for reasons of insult and honor. They have nothing to do with whether one speaks the same language or not. - (Kajira of Gor)