“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― In Defense of Women
― In Defense of Women
“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
― All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
― Homage to Catalonia
― Homage to Catalonia
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
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