We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. – George Orwell
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. – George Orwell
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. – 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