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Letter "G" » George Orwell Quotes
«Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Appearance,
Politicians
| Keywords:
appearance, designed, murder, political, respectable, solidity, truthful
«As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
adherent, adherents, advertisement, Bad Religion, Christian religion, socialism, The Christian
«Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertising, bucket, buckets, rattled, rattling, stick, swill, swilling
«Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
internationalism, patriotism
«Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.»
«It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
adopted, dependent, dependent on, heretical, intended, literally, once and for all, so far, unthinkable
«One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.»
«The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Insincerity,
Language
| Keywords:
aims, as it were, cuttlefish, declared, exhausted, gap, gaps, idiom, idioms, ink, insincerity, instinctively, squirt, squirted, squirting, squirts
«Serious sport is war minus the shooting.»
«Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.»
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