Publisher: | Penguin |
Genres: | Communication Studies, Political Science & Theory, Literary Essays |
Authors: | George Orwell |
Pages: | 23 pages |
ISBN10: | 0141393068 |
ISBN13: | 9780141393063 |
Tags: | Communication Studies, Political Science & Theory, Literary Essays, Free Download, PDF Download |
Language: | en |
Physical Form: | Book |
Size: | Huge |
Type: | Digital |
'The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's reals and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.'