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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. One cannot ch...more

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At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is n...more

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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, foll...more

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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 , ...more

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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.

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But unfortunately you get no further by merely wishing class-distinctions away. More exactly, it is necessary to wish them away, but your wish has no ...more

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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

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All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and ...more

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When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing you probably hunt abo...more

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What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms o...more

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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because t...more

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The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

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There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which t...more

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Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

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