Speech And Writing Quotes by George Orwell, June Jordan, Gore Vidal and many others.
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible… Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness… Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Language is political. That’s why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that’s why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
