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“Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
-George Orwell
Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.
George Orwell • Why I Write (Penguin Great Ideas)
The Communist’s emphasis is always on centralism and efficiency, the Anarchist’s on liberty and equality.
George Orwell • Homage To Catalonia
Comprenant ce qui se passait sous Staline, George Orwell s’en fit largement l’écho. En 1945, malgré une résistance acharnée contre la sortie du livre, il publia La Ferme des animaux, une fable faisant la satire de l’Union soviétique.