There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
GEORGE ORWELLIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
More George Orwell Quotes
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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