“Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

—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.’

—George Orwell.

“A scrupulous
writer in every sentence that he writes will
ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say?
What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it
clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will
probably ask himself two more: Could I put it more shortly? Have I
said anything that is avoidably ugly?”

—George Orwell.

“The English Language … becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”

—-Geroge 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.’

—George Orwell, novelist (25 Jun 1903-1950).

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

— George Orwell.

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”

—George Orwell.

“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”

—George Orwell.

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

—George Orwell.

“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”

—George Orwell.

“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.”

—George Orwell.

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

– George Orwell.

“The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug — that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.”

—George Orwell, novelist (1903-1950). 

“Truth is treason in an empire of lies” ~George Orwell. 

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

—George Orwell, writer (25 Jun 1903-1950).

“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.”

—George Orwell. 

“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.” — George Orwell.

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”

—George Orwell. 

“One’s got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can’t put things right in a hole-and-corner way.”

~George Orwell.

English: George Orwell in Hampstead On the corner of Pond Street and South End Road, opposite the Royal Free Hospital. The bookshop has long gone. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”
~George Orwell.

Picture of George Orwell which appears in an old acreditation for the BNUJ. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)