A Reference
Properly Cultured
QuoteAges 16–18 · The Liberal Education
Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell, 1946
Politics and the English Language, 1946

Orwell on the corruption of language by politics. Required reading for any writer.

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