Sublime

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe

Even under the tightest dictatorship, cannot the individual writer remain free inside his own mind and distil or disguise his unorthodox ideas in such a way that the authorities will be too stupid to recognise them?

nous en étions là : l’opinion de quelqu’un était insupportable. C’était la posture désormais. Et aussi une violation extrême, absurde, de la liberté d’expression, tout comme les politiques réputées haïssables étaient détournées en immorales.

Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.

But suddenly the dogs sitting round Napoleon let out deep, menacing growls, and the pigs fell silent and sat down again. Then the sheep broke out into a tremendous bleating of “Four legs good, two legs bad!” which went on for nearly a quarter of an hour and put an end to any chance of discussion.

Orwellian may be a current synonym for linguistic confusion, and yet he himself was the strongest advocate of his time for clear, explicit, uncomplicated political prose. In fact, he argued that streamlining communication and improving its accessibility to the masses would not, as critics today might argue, “dumb down” political discourse but in fa

Le régime parlementaire représente d'ailleurs l’idéal de tous les peuples civilisés modernes. Il traduit cette idée, psychologiquement erronée mais généralement admise, que beaucoup d'hommes réunis sont bien plus capables qu'un petit nombre de prendre une décision sage et indépendante sur un sujet donné.