Quote by George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a

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

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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, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. – George Orwell

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In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell

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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. – Simone Weil

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