Chosen Quote by George Orwell

“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the…

— George Orwell

“Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of them. The…

— George Orwell

“Everybody complains that politics separates words from their meanings, and this is part of the reason why. Words are useful, but often their meanings…

— Barton Swaim

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the…

— George Orwell

Political speeches might represent the ideas of the politician at hand, but often times, it's not written in their own words.

— Ana Kasparian

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and…

— Aldous Huxley

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the…

— George Orwell

“[The] defining characteristics of good prose [are]: a preference for short sentences diversified by an occasionally very long one; a tone that is relaxed…

— F.W. Bateson

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

— Kenneth Burke

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.

— Philippe Sollers

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy…

— George Orwell

The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one,…

— Dave Hickey