Quote by George Orwell
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt though

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. – George Orwell

Other quotes by George Orwell

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a childs eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. – George Orwell

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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. – George Orwell

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. – Marshall Lumsden

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Conversation is the slowest form of human communication. – Author Unknown

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The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. – Robert Burchfield

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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967

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We cant drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. Thats not leadership. Thats not going to happen. – Barack Obama

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