...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. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from...

...— 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. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from...

...— 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. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from...

...Cautious Government "If thought corrupts language, language can corrupt thought. Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder...respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change all this in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits. . . ."...

...— 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 This is one of many striking observations in Orwell's 'Politics and the English...

...to transfer to contemporary medical language his blunt conclusion about political language: that It "Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder...respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." This Is a day and age when violence surrounds us and is mounting, and we are faced with a widespread...

...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. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from...

...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." Fortunately the baseline does not rise to the level of murder, but it does distort the ability...

...writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. 8393 Shooting an Elephant Political language ... amnatlon, Good Lord, deliver us. 1421 Morning Prayer,...General Confesslon We have erred, and strayed from wind. 8394 Shooting an Elephant Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent....

...modest proposal. The punditocracy may be irredeemable, but it can be made obsolete. *It is, he wrote, "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." See George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," in The Orwell Reader (New York: Harcourt,...