George Orwell
Every war When it or it comes, is represented not as a
war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the
But if thought corrupts language. language can also conupt thought.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes
invariably from people who are not fighting.
Political language. „ is &signed to make lies sound and
murder respectable, and to give an of solidity to pure
War against a foreign county only hawens when åe tmneyed
classes think they are going to profit from it.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. (On oflanguagefor political ends.)
We have now sunk to a depth at which restata_nent Of the obvious is the first duo' Of intelligent men.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell pe:Q1e what they do not want to hear.
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
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