Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
GEORGE ORWELLGood prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
More George Orwell Quotes
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Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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