Language Quote by George Orwell

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally…

— George Orwell

“In NEWSPEAK, words like honor, justice, morality, democracy, science, and religion are eliminated entirely, being replaced by a single new word, CRIMETHINK,”

— Gerard K. O'Neill

“This accounted not only for the habit of abbreviating whenever possible, but also for the almost exaggerated care that was taken to make every…

— George Orwell

“The grammar of Newspeak had two outstanding peculiarities. The first of these was an almost complete interchangeability between different parts of speech. Any word…

— George Orwell

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it…

— Ugo Betti

“Words are like physical objects around us that appear to be continuous and whole but are in fact composed of particles too small for…

— Christina Meldrum

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

— Neville Brody

“The process of continually rereading and drawing out new meanings from words would not have been possible unless the words themselves were already open…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“it seemed to me that I had mastered words to the point of sweeping away forever the contradictions of being in the world, the…

— Elena Ferrante

“Words have the power to shoot down or raise up. Sharp cutting words can whirl for years.”

— Louise M. Wisechild

“a heap of words designed to hinder communication rather than facilitate it.”

— Hugh Howey