Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. – George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. – George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. – George Orwell