George Orwell Quotes on age

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind... view

By: George Orwell

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards... view

By: George Orwell

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end... view

By: George Orwell

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell... view

By: George Orwell

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers... view

By: George Orwell

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... view

By: George Orwell

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought... view

By: George Orwell

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?.. view

By: George Orwell

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia... view

By: George Orwell

Dans notre monde, il n'y aura pas d'autres émotions que la crainte, la rage et l'humiliation. Il n'y aura ni art, ni littérature. Il n'y aura ni curiosité ni joie de vivre... view

By: George Orwell

Le langage politique est fait pour que les mensonges paraissent vrais et les meurtres respectables... view

By: George Orwell

Chaque génération se croit plus intelligente que la précédente et plus sage que la suivante... view

By: George Orwell

Quand un écrivain s'engage dans la politique, il doit le faire en tant que citoyen, en tant qu'être humain, et non pas en tant qu'écrivain... view

By: George Orwell